Overview
- A mid-afternoon outage cut power to about 4,500 households and 300 businesses in western Berlin, the grid operator said.
- Stromnetz Berlin traced the failure to a broken switch linked to two substations in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
- Most customers in Charlottenburg, Grunewald and Westend got power back quickly, according to the company.
- About 1,000 households were still without electricity an hour after the blackout began, the operator reported.
- Five repair teams were deployed and the company said the issue was fixed by evening, noting this was a local technical fault unlike January’s suspected arson that left around 45,000 homes without power and led to tighter protections for key grid sites.