Failure to implement certain electricity supply restrictions might lead to a grid collapse that could leave Bulgaria's southern Black Sea coast without power for days, including the Sunny Beach resort.

This has been reported by the bTV channel citing dispatchers from the state Electricity System Operator (ESO), a government company in charge of the monitoring and control of power supply.

The ESO has stated that there are no formally introduced scheduled electricity supply restrictions as was initially announced Friday night but that it has told local power utility EVN to restrict the power supply to certain towns and resorts in the area at its own discretion.

Thus, instead of the scheduled restrictions under which the resorts were supposed to have power five out of every six hours, the supply will be turned on and off temporarily at various parts of the region, and at various times of the day depending on the consumption.

The power at various smaller towns, villages, and resorts north of the city of Burgas was reported to have been shut off for periods of about 1 hour between 7 pm and 11 pm Friday night in order to reduce the consumption by 15 MW.

If the total consumption of electricity in the region reaches again 200 MW as it nearly did on Friday, the grip might collapse, and it will take days to rectify the problem, bTV reported.

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