European clock loses six minutes because of Serbia, Kosovo

Europeans who are coming late to work or study in recent weeks have more to blame than bad weather. The real reason is an unprecedented delay in the continent's electricity grid is causing several hours to slow down.

The problem is caused by a political dispute between Serbia and Kosovo that is spilling a small amount of energy from the local network, causing a domino effect across the 25-nation high-volume energy network, which includes the continent from Portugal to Poland and Greece towards Germany.

The lobi of the power grid group called on two Balkan countries to resolve the dispute, reports The Guardian”, the Periscope broadcast.

“Since the European system is interconnected... when there is a imbalance somewhere, the frequency drops slightly,” said Claire Camus, spokesperson for the European Network of Operators of the Transmission System for Electric Energy (ENTSO-E).

The continental network had lost 113 GUIVE energy since mid-January, because Kosovo had used more electricity than it generates. Serbia, which is responsible for balancing Kosovo's network, had failed to do so, NTSO-E said.

The Brussels-based organisation added that “this average frequency deviation, which has never happened in any way in the electromagnetic system of continental Europe, should cease. ”

The transfer from European standard frequency to 50Hz has been enough to cause electrical hours that hold time from energy frequency, instead of integrated quartz crystals, to drop in about six minutes since mid-January.

The problem mostly affects radio alarms, oven watches, or watches used to program heating systems.

ENT SO-E said it was working on a technical solution that could restore the system within weeks, but urged European authorities and national governments to solve the political problem at the heart of the issue.

This is beyond the technical world. There should now be an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo regarding this lack of energy in the Kosovo system. You have to solve it politically and then technically,” said Camus.

Since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, the Serb-dominated north in Kosovo that remains loyal to Belgrade has not paid Kosovo's government for the energy it consumes.

A 2015 agreement was aimed at resolving the dispute, but Serbia has blocked its implementation.

Energy operator in Serbia, EMS, blamed Kosovo, claiming that in January and February the country “was withdrawing, unauthorizedly, unconventional electricity from the continental European union area”./Periscopi/