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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy

E.ON seeks to clear itself by attributing blackout on 4 November to human error

Brussels, 16/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - In a report presented on Wednesday, the German energy company, E.ON, which recognised its responsibility the day after the incident, revealed that the causes of the giant power failure that plunged over 10 million European citizens into darkness on 4 November (EUROPE 9300) was due above all to “errors of human assessment”, thus excluding the hypothesis of technical failure. In order to explain the origin of the failure, E.ON confirms that the...

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(EU) EU/ENERGY: Jacques Delors recommends a European Energy Treaty and Community after ECSC model
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