Cottbus outage: power restored in Schmellwitz on 7 November
Stadtwerke Cottbus says power was restored by 19:31 CET on 7 November 2026 to all households affected by the outage in Schmellwitz, a district of Cottbus in Brandenburg. The utility traced the start of the incident to a medium-voltage fault in the EVC network at 17:30 CET. It reported a second fault during switching at 18:45 CET.
Status of this incident
Restoration confirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · Stadtwerke Cottbus confirmed restoration for all affected households by 19:31 CET on 7 November.
Source moment: Nov 7, 2026, 06:31 PM UTC (07:31 PM local time)
In 20 seconds
Stadtwerke Cottbus reported a medium-voltage fault in Schmellwitz at 17:30 CET.
The utility reported a second fault during switching at 18:45 CET and restoration by 19:31 CET.
The utility did not give a household count or name the streets affected.
What happened in Schmellwitz
Stadtwerke Cottbus identified the first fault in the EVC medium-voltage network in Schmellwitz. It said another fault occurred during switching later that evening. The utility gave times for both faults but did not identify what caused either one. Its account also does not say whether the second fault changed which addresses had lost power.
The utility confirmed restoration for every household affected by this incident. The time it gave is the point by which supply was back for those households. Without a street list or an address-by-address timeline, the two ends of the utility’s timeline do not show how long each household was without electricity.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Reported area
- Schmellwitz, Cottbus, Brandenburg
- Restoration
- Stadtwerke Cottbus: all affected households restored by 19:31 CET on 7 November
- Affected households
- No count given by Stadtwerke Cottbus
How many households were affected?
Lausitzer Rundschau reported that consumers had filed more than 250 outage reports on Störungsauskunft.de by 19:00 CET. That figure counts reports submitted to the platform. It does not establish the number of households or electricity connections that lost power. Stadtwerke Cottbus did not publish an affected household count in its statement.
An earlier outage in Schmellwitz on 30 October was a separate report. The evidence for 7 November does not establish a common cause or a connection between the incidents. The restoration time here applies to the 7 November outage described by Stadtwerke Cottbus.
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