Overview

• As of Wednesday evening, between 13,700 and 20,000 households still lacked power after an interim fix failed and briefly cut electricity again for about 6,300 customers.
• Technicians are joining armdicke lines with two‑meter “Muffen” couplings in a dust‑free process, and the operator warns that returning the grid to its original configuration will take weeks.
• State security at the LKA is checking the authenticity of a responsibility claim posted on Indymedia, with arson at two masts in Johannisthal suspected and no suspects publicly identified.
• Service disruptions included curtailed tram lines 63 and M17, the S47 skipping Oberspree overnight, partial emergency‑number failures, and school closures on Wednesday with classes slated to resume Thursday.
• Most retailers preserved frozen goods by moving them to refrigerated trucks, limiting losses, and Stromnetz Berlin asked reconnected customers to conserve power to keep the network stable and enable further hookups.