A failure at Kaliningrad's main power plant leaves the city and several towns without electricity

Several districts of Kaliningrad and the towns of Guryevsk, Svetlogorsk, Pionersky, Yantarny, Gvardeysk and Bagrationovsk lost electricity around midnight from Friday to Saturday, according to UNITED24 Media and UA.News. The region, a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, has more than one million inhabitants.

The regional governor's spokesperson, Mariam Bashkirova, said the emergency protection system at Kaliningrad's TETS-2 thermal power plant tripped and disconnected part of its equipment, and that the load was distributed among other power plants in the region, according to both outlets. The plant has 900 MW of installed capacity, around 54% of the region's according to 2019 data, according to UNITED24 Media. It has not been explained what triggered the protections.

The distribution company Rosseti Yantar said there were no faults on its grid and promised to reconnect all customers within an hour, according to UA.News. Street lighting began to come back at around 00:20, according to the local platform Strana Kaliningrad, cited by that outlet. According to The Moscow Times, cited by UNITED24 Media, some residents continued to suffer outages lasting from minutes to hours, as well as water and heating problems; there were also mobile internet failures.

Since February 2025, when the Baltic states disconnected from the Russian grid and synchronized with the European one, Kaliningrad has relied solely on its own generation, according to UNITED24 Media. The number of customers affected has not been reported.