STUTTGART (dpa-AFX) - In order to prevent a possible power shortage in the southwest, around 3000 megawatts (MW) were deployed on Sunday evening, according to the grid operator Transnet BW. 1400 MW of it came according to it between 17.00 and 19.00 o'clock from power stations, which are anyway at the market. Reserve power plants supplied about 800 MW, and 740 MW came from Switzerland.

The company had informed on Sunday, among other things via the app "StromGedacht", that there could be a bottleneck and consumers should, if possible, not use electronic devices or use them by battery. The background was a so-called redispatch - an intervention in power generation to avoid bottlenecks.

According to a spokeswoman, there was a wind peak in the north in the evening that generated 50 gigawatts of energy. Because the grids have not yet been sufficiently expanded in the wake of the energy transition, the transmission capacity in the southwest is not sufficient for such volumes. A traffic jam is created, and the electricity looks for another route. To meet demand in Baden-Württemberg, electricity then has to be generated elsewhere or imported.

"Redispatch is part of the work in our main switchboard most days of the year," the spokeswoman explained. But significantly less often, she said, it is of a magnitude like on Sunday./kre/DP/men