Germany investigates second suspected electricity grid sabotage case after five power units go offline in the Rhineland
Five power plant units with a combined capacity of 4.2 gigawatts were knocked offline in the Rhine region of Germany on the evening of Sept. 1, according to a Bloomberg report . Grid operator Amprion said the incident occurred near a substation in Rommerskirchen and that power supply to consumers had not been affected. Police in Essen said they were proceeding on the assumption that the incident…
Germany is investigating a second suspected electricity grid sabotage case following a recent incident that left five power units offline in the Rhineland region. The grid operator, Amprion, stated that the incident occurred near a substation in Rommerskirchen, with power supply to consumers remaining unaffected. Police in Essen suspect the attack to be a deliberate act, classifying it as a criminal offense.
The affected power units were owned by energy company RWE and were feeding electricity into the grid at the time of the incident. RWE expects to restore 2.6 GW of capacity by Wednesday and the remaining 1.6 GW over the weekend. Authorities are examining whether the incidents in western and eastern Germany are linked, with North Rhine-Westphalia's interior minister considering theories of foreign state-sponsored sabotage or left-wing extremist activity.
The eastern state of Brandenburg has opened a case that includes suspicions of terrorist organization formation. This incident follows a series of attacks on energy infrastructure in Germany, including an arson attack in Berlin in early January and a drone incident near a Ukrainian transport plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport in early August, which German authorities blamed on Russia.
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