In the cold months, the increased use of electrically operated heaters is expected. This in turn puts a strain on the power grid.

In the Northwest It is a scenario that could not have been imagined a few months ago. But now the preparations for a possible blackout and the consequences are underway. The Berlin police, for example, are preparing for a possible state of emergency in a three-phase plan. LKA experts have been talking about a so-called “secret paper on the energy crisis” for months. But what is the situation in Lower Saxony?

How are the Lower Saxony police prepared for a blackout?

When asked, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport said that the police were “basically preparing for a wide variety of situations and scenarios”, “even regardless of specific occasions”. This so-called “calendar-based preparation includes a large number of different situation areas, which are incorporated into the corresponding framework planning,” it continues. However, the Ministry of the Interior and Sport has announced that no states of emergency are currently expected. In addition, the Lower Saxony police have sufficient emergency power generators. Other mobile units and mobile fuel tanks are still being procured.

When the lights go out, crime rates increase, and security systems fail without electricity. Blackouts provide opportunity for fraud, theft and exploitation.

A good example is 2009, an estimated 53% of Pakistani citizens were without power eight hours a day, during hot summers. High temperatures and hikes in energy prices meant angry mobs went on a rampage and assailed power companies in frustration at the cuts that brought life to a standstill. This will be no different to Europe during the cold winter. Where Germans are already going into forests to cut wood illegally to keep their families warm.

Blackout decades ago turned into a night of crime!

During a blackout decades ago in the USA, people did not help guide traffic and take it in stride. Then, a crime rampage broke out as people filled the pitch-black streets, looting and setting stores ablaze.

In the span of one day, there were close to 3,000 arrests, a study commissioned by the division of Electric Energy Systems and the Department of Energy states.
“In the areas hit worst by the looting and vandalism, the vast amount of refuse, garbage and spoiled food required the addition of 82 sanitation trucks and 4,000 workers to cope with the clean-up operation,” the study says.

News Portals with secret Script already in place.

The BBC has prepared secret scripts that could be read on air if energy shortages cause blackouts or the loss of gas supplies this winter. The scripts, seen by the Guardian, set out how the corporation would reassure the public in the event that a “major loss of power” causes mobile phone networks, internet access, banking systems or traffic lights to fail across England, Wales and Scotland.