Frankfurt: Floods in West Germany have cut electricity to 200,000 households, WestNetz spokesman, the largest electricity distribution grid company in the country, said on Thursday.
“We tried to resolve the situation with all the hands available on the deck,” he said in response to the investigation.
The company grid area covers most of the state in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, but not Cologne cities, Wuppertal and Duesseldorf.
It supplies around 7.5 million with power, gas, water and heat.
He said many power substations could not be contacted for repairs because the road was still blocked.
Some unreached installations are being monitored with drones.
Westnetz works with the team of authorities and crisis responses throughout the region, he said.
Railway and road transportation has been disturbed throughout the region, and shipping on the parts of Rhine, an important trading artery, suspended on Thursday while heavier rain is due in southwest Germany.