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The winners of Stromnetz Berlin’s ‘Electricity Box Styling 2025’ competition hail from Reinickendorf, Wedding, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Lichtenberg and Marzahn

After first restoring the power supply to south-west Berlin on 7 January, Stromnetz Berlin has now also put the second temporary high-voltage line into operation.

Electrical power has now been restored to all domestic and commercial customers in south-west Berlin.

Starting from 11 a.m., Stromnetz Berlin will gradually be restoring the power supply to everyone in south-west Berlin. This has been made possible by completion of a temporary power line on the Teltow Canal. Over the last few hours, this line has now successfully passed the mandatory operational audit.

Following the arson attack on a cable bridge over the Teltow Canal in Berlin-Lichterfelde, over the last few hours, Stromnetz Berlin has reconnected more domestic and commercial customers in the south-west of Berlin to the grid. For example, power has been restored to all 74 of the care facilities affected. Power is also available again for the Mexikoplatz, Nikolassee and Wannsee S-Bahn stations.

Following the suspected arson attack on a cable bridge over the Teltow Canal in Berlin-Lichterfelde, Stromnetz Berlin is continuing to work on the gradual restoration of supplies to households and businesses in the south-west of Berlin. By switching and connecting from other parts of the network, a further 4,000 households and 180 commercial customers in the Zehlendorf district were supplied with electricity again this Sunday afternoon. They were brought back online during the prioritised resupply of several care facilities.

Following the suspected arson attack on a cable bridge over the Teltow Canal in Berlin-Lichterfelde, many households and businesses in the south-west of the capital are still without power. Thanks to modifications to other parts of the network, power was restored to about 7,000 households and 150 commercial customers in the Lichterfelde district at roughly 3.30 a.m. last night (4 January 2026). Electrical power will be restored to a further 3,000 households in Lichterfelde in the course of Sunday.

There is still a major power outage in south-west Berlin. Around 45,000 households and 2,200 commercial customers in the Nikolassee, Zehlendorf, Wannsee and Lichterfelde districts have been affected since 6 a.m. today (3 January 2026).

Around 45,000 households and 2,200 commercial customers are affected