ITALY BLACKOUT CAUSES
October 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNA FIERCE row over the blame for the electricity blackout which affected virtually the whole of Italy on September 28 has broken out between the Italian, Swiss and French governments, which may delay Rome's moves towards liberalisation of its energy markets. The blackout, the worst in Italy's history, left more than 50 million people without electricity for up to a day.An interim report into the incident by the Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity" (UCTE), the association of transmission system operators in continental Europe, ...
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