The electricity system faced during the recent heatwave up to twice the load compared to the beginning of summer as demand for electricity increased due to the extensive use of air conditioners, while the peak load exceeded 10,000 megawatts for several days, ANA reports.
The development of renewable energy sources and especially photovoltaics that contribute to meeting the demand during midday hours, the integration of new modern thermal power generation units, and the reinforcements to the transmission and distribution networks are the main causes that have so far allowed the increased needs to be met without significant problems, beyond local outages and damage caused by fires.
According to the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO), the load of the system surpassed 10,000 megawatts for certain days last week. More specifically, last Monday the peak load reached 10,345 megawatts, while the total daily demand during the hot days was 440 gigawatt hours. In periods of low demand (e.g. at the end of May) the demand was close to 230 gigawatt hours.
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