First of all: A lot of irritating and fear-inducing content and messages are published on social media about this topic. Even the tabloid media are not afraid of scaremongering. Especially on messengers like Telegram, where all sorts of claims are spread without evidence, we recommend that you approach the topic of “blackout” with caution. If you follow most of the expert opinions, then you don't really have to worry.
What might apply in an emergency is a “rotating shutdown.” Here, certain geographical regions are disconnected from the power grid for a planned and limited period of time to avoid a blackout. But this is not a blackout, because it makes a big difference whether an entire country has no electricity at the same time or whether a city or district is temporarily taken off the grid for a few hours.
With the onset of the energy crisis, the risk of a blackout has become more present.
A wide variety of articles are published in the media and documentaries and series on this topic are shown on television. For many people, a blackout is very difficult to imagine because hardly any of us have experienced anything like it before! This is also the reason why society is almost panicking about this issue.
Note: A power outage is not a blackout. A blackout occurs when the power supply fails over a large area and the coordinated creation of sub-grids and the decentralized use of suitable power plants are required to restore the supply. Power outages, such as those that occur after severe storms, are not blackouts. Regional outages can often be resolved within hours, national outages can only be resolved after a few days. A distinction must be made between short-term technical disruptions (10 – 15 minutes) in the power supply.
Telegram and Co are full of false reports and you can always read a date somewhere when a so-called blackout will occur. There was already information at the end of 2021 that “there will soon be nationwide power outages, i.e. a so-called blackout.” (We reported HERE ), and supposedly there should be a blackout in Germany on January 15th, 2020. Back then there were a lot of panic videos with headlines like: “Mega BLACKOUT and CHAOS in GERMANY (2 weeks)?? on January 15, 2020 – WARNING“ . ( HERE )
Lists for disaster preparedness are currently being distributed on social media, especially on the messenger Telegram. These contain typical “sales links” to various petroleum heaters, canned bread and solar power storage systems. A dangerous mix of fake news and conspiracy theories also appears in these Telegram channels. The aim of this toxic mixture: to make readers fall into fear and give them the feeling that they have to order the advertised products directly in order to be prepared for a supposedly inevitable blackout.
So, now take a quick breath and take a step back!
The fact is that since June 2022, sometimes more and sometimes less gas has been flowing from Russia. The situation is quite volatile. Since then, the fear of a blackout has been very present. You can no longer dismiss this as simple paranoia on the part of “preppers”, because even Markus Söder from Germany spoke of a possible blackout in an interview with ARD in July 2022.
What does prepper mean? A prepper is a survivalist, a survivalist; a person who is extremely prepared for disasters. The term “prepper” is derived from the English phrase “to be prepared”, which means “to be prepared”. The term also refers to the English Boy Scout greeting “Be prepared!”, i.e. “Always ready!” or “Be ready!” This refers to people or groups who belong to the social movement of survivalists or survival artists.
In Austria, the then Federal Chancellor Schallenberg also explained during an exercise that the blackout issue was not a scaremongering exercise, but rather a possible crisis, the probability of which should not be underestimated.
But how likely is a blackout?
Each scenario only becomes relevant when there is a certain probability that it will occur at all. There are currently very different estimates as to how likely a blackout is . So the likelihood of a blackout depends on who you ask. Some believe that the probability is not very high, others believe that the probability of a blackout is increasing.
A blackout is a largely unexpected, unpredictable and total failure of the energy supply
It is therefore all the more important to be informed in the event of a sudden emergency and what is most important: keep calm and act thoughtfully!
CONCLUSION:
If you go by the majority of expert opinions, then you don't have to worry about a blackout.
What could hit us, however, is a “rotating shutdown.” Here, certain parts of the load are disconnected from the system for a certain period of time, which is planned. But this is not a blackout, because it makes a big difference whether an entire country has no electricity at the same time or whether a city or district is temporarily taken off the grid for a few hours. But how likely is a blackout?
Each scenario only becomes relevant when there is a certain probability that it will occur at all.
There are currently very different estimates as to how likely a blackout is. So the likelihood of a blackout depends on who you ask. Some are convinced that the probability is not very high, others are of the opinion that the probability of a blackout is increasing. The fact is that none of us can prepare for such scenarios because such a scenario happens without warning. It is therefore all the more important to be informed in the event of a sudden emergency and what is most important: keep calm and act thoughtfully!
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