Over quarter of a million Czech households without power

On Sunday morning, approximately 260,000 households in the Czech Republic were without electricity due to adverse weather conditions. The hardest-hit region is Moravian-Silesia, where 114,000 customers are currently without power. In the Olomouc region, 34,000 homes are affected, while southern Moravia has 30,000 outages, the Hradec Králové region is facing 25,000, and the Liberec region has 16,000 customers without electricity. These figures were provided by spokespersons from energy companies ČEZ and E.ON. ČEZ Distribuce reports 240 outages on high-voltage lines and hundreds more on low-voltage lines. The primary cause is fallen trees and branches on power lines due to strong winds, which also toppled several utility poles. A significant outage was caused by flooding at a substation in Krnov. In southern Czechia, E.ON has reported 91 high-voltage line outages.