Taking flak for the recent rolling power cuts, the government on Monday promised an energy storage system would be in place by next summer, while unions affiliated to the Electricity Authority of Cyprus said that “sheer luck” prevented an overall blackout amid the persistent heatwave .
Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis was responding to broadsides fired by Disy MP Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis, who accused the state of kowtowing to the EAC trade
