{"id":141831,"date":"2026-08-07T05:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/141831\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T05:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:48:11","slug":"berlin-pays-nearly-e900000-for-hotel-stays-after-major-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/141831\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin pays nearly \u20ac900,000 for hotel stays after major blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Berlin authorities have reimbursed nearly \u20ac900,000 ($1.04 million) in hotel costs after a major power outage left tens of thousands of people without electricity and heating in January, according to figures from the local district administration seen by dpa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thousands of residents moved into hotels during the several-day outage amid subzero temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said 3,116 applications had been reviewed, often covering several people, and 2,933 claims had been paid. Reimbursements averaged between \u20ac52 and \u20ac55 per person per night.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A further 129 applications were rejected, including cases in which stays fell outside the eligible period or were not in commercial accommodation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The outage followed a suspected arson attack by left-wing extremists on a cable bridge on January 3. It was the longest power cut in Berlin&#8217;s post-war history and affected around 100,000 people in 45,000 households, as well as more than 2,000 businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Power was fully restored on January 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berlin authorities have reimbursed nearly \u20ac900,000 ($1.04 million) in hotel costs after a major power outage left tens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,5719,190,68032,4230],"class_list":["post-141831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-cable-bridge","tag-germany","tag-hotel-stays","tag-power-outage"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117052657003931434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}