International power network

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33253, 16 June 1973, Page 11

International power network

In Jungmanova Street, Prague, a team of experts from Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Rumania, the U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia has been working for 10 years, leading the operation of the Mir (Peace) power ring. Electric power consumption in countries lying in different time zones does not coincide, but the Mir grid can send extra power to places where at a given moment the need is higher. Economically, the exchange of electric power between partners is more profitable than the construction of new stations. There is a large hall in the controlling centre buildings, and the control system covers the whole wall. Men on duty

watch the instruments 24 hours a day, and get in touch with national centres when necessary. Once a large Polish station was out of order for a short time, and if the Mir power ring had not existed, electricity to many factories and residential areas would have been cut. But this did not happen. Poland was provided with electricity from her Comecon partners. The Mir power grid reacts immediately to sudden increases of loads in the network. The effectiveness of cooperation within the framework of the Mir grid has attracted the attention of Western business circles. For any country whose power grid boarders on the Mir may incorporate her power grid into it.—Novosti.