Power outage: 19,900 households in southwest Berlin stay with out energy | EUROtoday

After the facility outage in southwest Berlin, round 19,900 households and 850 industrial companies are nonetheless with out energy. The operator Stromnetz Berlin introduced this on its web site. It will in all probability take till Thursday afternoon for everybody affected to be again on-line.

According to figures from Stromnetz Berlin, round 2,000 extra households and 100 industrial companies have been capable of be equipped with electrical energy once more by early Wednesday morning. The operator additionally requested everybody who has electrical energy within the meantime to “limit electricity consumption to an absolutely necessary minimum.”

For instance, home equipment reminiscent of washing machines or dryers shouldn’t be used at first. “The charging of electric vehicles via the home wallbox should also be stopped for the time being,” because it was stated. Charging factors exterior the affected districts needs to be used for this function.

Due to an arson assault on a cable bridge within the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district of Berlin, presumably motivated by left-wing extremists, complete districts within the southwest of the capital have been with out energy for days in freezing temperatures. On Saturday morning, 45,000 households and a couple of,200 firms in southwest Berlin have been initially with out energy. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office has now taken over the investigation.