January 21, 2026, 3:31 p.mJanuary 21, 2026, 3:31 p.m
On the Danish island of Bornholm, more than 18,000 households were without power for hours on Wednesday. According to the electricity supplier Trefor, the culprit was a technical error that led to an overload on a submarine cable.
The power supply was restored at 2 p.m.Image: keystone
The outage was noticed shortly after 10 a.m. in the morning. At 2 p.m. the power supply was restored in all households, as the Ritzau news agency reported.
“At this point I’m pretty sure it’s an overload on the cable and has nothing to do with terrorism or anything like that,” Per Sørensen, supply director at Trefor El-Net Øst, told Danish Radio.
Recently, cables and wires in the Baltic Sea have repeatedly been damaged. The cause behind this is unclear in each case, but sabotage is suspected in several cases. (sda/dpa)