The recent power outage in Berlin showed how dependent many companies still are on the public grid. Production stoppages, IT failures and unplanned costs are not the exception – they are the rule.
Regardless of the official cause, the incident highlights a fundamental risk posed by modern energy systems: critical infrastructure is a potential target for targeted sabotage.
Energy experts and safety authorities have been pointing out for years that power outages can be caused not only by technical failure or overload, but also by:
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targeted interventions with insider knowledge,
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Sabotage at critical network points,
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coordinated shutdown of critical components,
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or hybrid threat scenarios in the context of geopolitical tensions.
Precisely because such interventions require highly specialised knowledge, central networks and switching centres are considered particularly vulnerable. For companies, failures mean not only downtime, but also real economic damage.
Why the power failure occurred in the first place:
- Central grid dependency
- Lack of local buffers
- Load peaks without compensation
- No island operation capability
The solution would be decentralised energy with a system.
These risks could have been significantly reduced with solutions from SUN-MASTER:
- Own electricity generation through photovoltaics
- Modular 48-volt energy storage systems (low voltage)
- Backup power and island operation
- Intelligent load management
The result: companies remain operational, production downtime is avoided, and costs remain calculable.
The power outage in south-west Berlin clearly shows that resilient energy systems are no longer a topic for the future, but an economic necessity.
