Press Release: Blackout of November 2006: important lessons to be drawn

The final report on the incident of 4 November 2006, released on 30 January 2007 by the Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE), demonstrates that common action at European level is urgent. Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs stated, “Europe should draw lessons from this Blackout that left millions of Europeans in various Member States without electricity and develop stronger network security standards".