TIRANA, Albania, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Albanian officials are frantically trying to get adequate electricity supplies to end drastic power cuts.
The BBC reports that parts of the capital city, Tirana, are blacked out for more than eight hours a day. Some villages appear to be off the grid for days at a time.
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The government plans to privatize 80 small hydropower plants. Kesh, the state power service, has been importing electricity from Romania and Bulgaria and hopes to bring in some from Italy.
Officials blame low water levels for the problem, and Prime Minister Sali Berisha -- who ousted the Socialists this year -- says his predecessors left him a broken system.
