24 July 2006, 00:00
High level of demand on the reactive and active power remains unchanged. Due to lack of sufficient amount of cooling water or/and exceeded water temperature levels the generating capacities of some power plants systematically decrease. As this situation concerns mainly the power plants located in the central and northern part of Poland, the loadings of some transmission lines reach the acceptable limits what in turn cause the necessity of generation decrease in power plants located outside the mentioned region.
Current weather forecasts indicate possibilities for further deterioration of operational conditions in the Polish power system for the period between July 24th and 28th.
Taking all the above into account PSE-Operator announces that between July 24th and 28th it is possible that the alert state in the Polish power system may occur.
The violations of reliability standards including the ones related to the operation within UCTE synchronous interconnected systems and quality criteria of electricity deliveries may take place.
For these reasons PSE-Operator has undertaken following actions:
PSE-Operator does not exclude taking further actions in order to assure safe operation of Polish power system.
Stefania Kasprzyk
President of PSE-Operator S.A.