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What Do you Do When the Country Goes Dark?

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What Do you Do When the Country Goes Dark?

 
April 02, 2015

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  By Rory J. Thompson, Web Editor

Here in the U.S., we kind of take electricity for granted; push a switch, and a light goes on. But given the tenor of the times with hackers and terrorists seemingly everywhere, we shouldn’t grow complacent. The nation of Turkey found that out this week when a sudden outage caused chaos and shut down public transportation. The government refused to rule out that the electricity system had been the victim of an attack.


It all began about shortly after 10:30 Tuesday morning, the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted the Turkey Electricity Transmission company (TEIAS) as saying. The outage was confirmed to have hit 49 of the country’s total 81 provinces, from the Greek border to those in the southeast neighboring Iran and Iraq, including Istanbul and the capital, Ankara, according to The Guardian newspaper.

“Every possibility, including a terrorist attack, is being investigated,” said the prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, after the magnitude of the outage became clear, The Guardian reported. Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz, added “the most important thing for us is to bring the system back to life. This is not something we frequently experience.”

Whatever the cause, the outage underscores the need for an uninterruptible power supply, or UPS. Having such a system in place would at least allow those working online to save critical work before powering down completely.

About three hours after the power cut struck Istanbul, the metro, tramway and the Marmaray underground system came back on line and resumed operations. Power was being gradually restored to Istanbul with some reports claiming that 80 percent of the city had power again. However, many private homes and offices were still without electricity.

There were conflicting initial reports about the cause of the outage, The Guardian said, but TEIAS said it resulted from a severing of the power lines between Europe and Turkey, and warned it could take hours before electricity is restored. But the mystery surrounding the actual cause goes on.



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