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Greece power outages continue amid maintenance

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The DEHDE rolling maintenance programme, now extended beyond running well past its original mid‑July 2026 deadline, keeps generating scheduled has kept Greece on a schedule of repeated electricity cuts across Greece. cuts. After the July 24 orange alert and unplanned faults in central Athens, DEDDIE the utility carried out a further round of maintenance on 29 July, restoring power in Agios Dimitrios, Kallithea, Nea Ionia, Ilion, Marousi, Tzavelas and nearby districts between 08:00 and mid‑afternoon. The utility also announced new several Athens districts. New planned interruptions for the first week of August. On 1 August, power will be suspended from 14:00 to 18:00 in parts of the August were announced for Halkidiki municipality and the town Imathia. The pattern of Eretria. Subsequent cuts will run from 2 August through 5 August across scheduled outages began earlier in the Imathia regional unit, year, with a 31 May cut affecting Naousa, Veria, Alexandria and surrounding agricultural areas. Residents are warned to keep cables de‑energised, protect appliances Athens and avoid contact with exposed lines. These outages, together Thessaloniki, followed by a series of Attica‑wide interruptions on 5‑6 June, 8‑9 June, 13 June, 15 June, 18‑19 June (the latter paired with earlier water supply cuts), and again on 23‑24 June and 25 June. Crete also saw multiple cuts on 10‑11 June, 23‑24 June and 25 June. Wider outages were imposed on 27‑28 June across Attica, Thessaloniki and Kavala, and on 29 June in Crete, both Attica and other islands, continue to disrupt Thessaloniki, causing notable traffic signals, elevators congestion. Further cuts were scheduled for 1 July and businesses, while authorities advise the public 3 July in Attica and Thessaloniki, and for 3 August across numerous Attica streets. Throughout, residents are repeatedly advised to avoid using elevators, disconnect sensitive appliances, treat all cables as live, and plan for temporary loss of electricity.

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  1. 2026-08-03 06:02 UTC Greece power outages continue amid maintenance
  2. 2026-07-31 20:36 UTC Greece power outages continue amid maintenance
  3. 2026-07-29 05:35 UTC Greece power outages persist amid storms

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