Heatwave Pushes Energy-Hungry Tunisia to Enforce Rolling Blackouts
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While a suffocating heat wave is affecting the country's power grid, thousands of Tunisians have come down the street to denounce inaction and authoritarian drift of power.
Tunisia OKs home batteries as heatwave, outages push its power grid to the brink
Tunisia is turning to home energy storage as a punishing heat wave pushes electricity use to record highs and exposes the limits of the national grid. The new approval could give some households and businesses a way to keep the power on when demand-driven outages hit. What's happening? According to ESS News, STEG, Tunisia's state utility, has cleared low-voltage customers, including homes and businesses, to use battery storage together with hybr…
Heatwave pushes energy-hungry Tunisia to enforce rolling blackouts
In Tunisia, after weeks of extended power cuts, the effects are serious. Between 150 and 200 died in the heatwave, according to the Order of Young Doctors, and businesses took severe hits after their goods spoiled. Authorities have announced that power is returning to normal as temperatures go back down this week. This crisis has highlighted Tunisia’s fragile dependence on energy as climate change sees regularly higher temperatures. FRANCE 24's …
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