Overview
- Public broadcaster RBB reported, and the Berlin state chancellery confirmed, that Kai Wegner played tennis between about 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday as the outage unfolded.
- On Sunday, Wegner told reporters he stayed at home all day on the phone and had locked himself in his office during the crisis.
- Grid operator Stromnetz Berlin shifted its guidance on Saturday from a same-day fix to no estimate by 12:46 p.m., then forecast power returning only by Thursday afternoon by 4:51 p.m.
- An arson attack on a cable bridge cut electricity to 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses, with Wegner later estimating about 100,000 people were affected, and power was fully restored after four days in the city’s longest postwar outage.
- Green Party candidate Werner Graf criticized Wegner for not visiting affected neighborhoods on day one, while Wegner and his office reject claims he neglected crisis management.