Cottbus-Schmellwitz power restored after outage affecting about 2,000 connections
Stadtwerke Cottbus says all connections affected by a power outage in Schmellwitz were supplied again by 08:50 CET on 30 October 2026. Around 2,000 network connections were affected after a fault in the medium-voltage network of Elektroenergieversorgung Cottbus GmbH at 08:18. An earlier fault had occurred in the medium-voltage network of a customer installation at 07:50.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · Stadtwerke Cottbus says all affected Schmellwitz connections were supplied again by 08:50 CET on 30 October.
In 20 seconds
Around 2,000 network connections in Schmellwitz were affected; this is an approximate connection count.
The operator distinguishes a 07:50 customer-installation fault from a further 08:18 public-network fault.
All connections affected by this incident were supplied again by 08:50 CET, according to Stadtwerke Cottbus.
Two fault times in the operator account
The statement first identifies a fault at 07:50 CET in the medium-voltage network of a customer installation. It then records a fault at 08:18 CET in the medium-voltage network of Elektroenergieversorgung Cottbus GmbH. These are separate reported stages. The operator does not explain the underlying technical cause or the precise relationship between the faults, so those details remain unresolved.
The resulting supply interruptions affected around 2,000 network connections in Schmellwitz, a district of Cottbus. This figure counts connections, rather than residents. The statement does not provide a complete address list or the length of the interruption at each connection. It therefore cannot establish that every affected address lost electricity at the earlier time, or that the entire city was without power.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Reported impact
- Around 2,000 network connections in Schmellwitz, Cottbus; not a population total
- Operator update
- All affected connections supplied again by 08:50 CET, according to Stadtwerke Cottbus
- Timing
- 30 October 2026: customer-installation fault 07:50 CET; public-network fault 08:18 CET; restoration by 08:50 CET
Restoration confirmed for affected connections
Stadtwerke Cottbus says every affected network connection was fully supplied again by 08:50 CET, equivalent to 07:50 UTC. The restoration statement covers the connections affected by this incident. It does not provide a status guarantee for unrelated faults elsewhere in Cottbus. The interval between the reported public-network fault at 08:18 and restoration at 08:50 is 32 minutes, without establishing an identical interruption duration for each address.
The account is based on one primary operator lineage, without independent address-level verification. The operator statement is dated 30 October, but its first-publication hour is unknown. Its publication date should be kept separate from the morning event times. A later report with specific technical details or a correction would provide a basis for updating this account; the currently recorded restoration is an attributed operator finding.
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