The head of the regional network operator Edis, Alexander Montebaur, named this sum at a meeting of the Tesla Task Force last Wednesday in the Brandenburg State Chancellery.
“The laborious restoration of supply was a great team effort by our employees, partner companies and authorities,” Montebaur is quoted as saying.
Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) described the attack as dangerous to thousands of households. “Without any scruples, not only the supply of a plant, but above all thousands of households, including health and social facilities, were damaged,” Woidke wrote to Edis. The head of government thanked people for restoring the power supply.
On March 5, previously unknown perpetrators set fire to an electricity pylon in a field that is part of the power supply for the electric car factory in Grünheide near Berlin. Production came to a standstill for almost a week. The left-wing extremist “Vulkan Group” had declared that it was responsible for the attack. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office took over the investigation. According to the “Stop Tesla” initiative, a protest camp demonstrating against an expansion planned by Tesla has nothing to do with the attack.
Requirements for protest camp suspended
According to the “Stop Tesla” initiative, a protest camp demonstrating against an expansion planned by Tesla has nothing to do with the attack. However, a court decision by the administrative court in Potsdam has brought a sigh of relief in the camp. According to an interim order from Saturday, the requirements of the assembly authority do not apply for the time being. The conditions are suspended until the court has made a final decision.
The conditions stipulated that the activists were no longer allowed to enter the tree houses due to safety concerns and had to remove the structures by Monday. In contrast, the “Stop Tesla” initiative turned to the administrative court with an urgent application. The court plans to deal with the application on Monday. According to a spokesman, it was still unclear whether a decision would be made.
