More electricity outages to come in October in Budapest and Pest county

The electricity supplier in Budapest and Pest county, Central Hungary, already noticed their customers that they should expect power outages in the coming weeks or months. The reason is not in connection with the energy or economic crisis hitting Hungary hard.

According to blikk.hu, Budapest and Pest county residents should expect electricity outages in the coming period, ELMŰ, the region’s service provider said. That is because they work on the development of the system. The work must be carried out, so the inconvenience is inevitable, the company added.

ELMŰ already sent the information letters to its customers in the region affected. They cleared that they were working on making their system safer and more reliable. ELMŰ says that the development project cannot be postponed because of the increased customer demands regarding the system. Therefore, they will carry out an increased number of maintenance and improvement jobs. As a result, some of their customers will have more power blackouts than they are used to.