Letter From The Radicalized Group Who Blew Up The Berlin Electrical Grid

I lifted this from the public  release  (in English): 

 NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS 2026. HAVE COURAGE!

We can no longer afford the rich.

We can initiate the end of the imperial lifestyle.

We can stop the plundering of the Earth.

In the greed for energy, the Earth is being drained, sucked dry, burned, abused, razed, raped, and destroyed. Entire regions are rendered uninhabitable by the heat. They simply burn up. Or habitats disappear beneath the waves during floods or due to rising sea levels.

Shutting down fossil fuel power plants is a task that can be accomplished by hand. Have courage.

We know we must interrupt this destruction. We know we are not alone. Don't give up hope for a world where life has space, not the greed for money, power, and destruction.

Last night, we successfully sabotaged the gas-fired power plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde. This resulted in power outages in the wealthier districts of Wannsee, Zehlendorf, and Nikolassee. Power outages were not the goal of the action; the fossil fuel industry was the target. We apologize to the less affluent residents of southwest Berlin. Our sympathy for the many villa owners in these districts is limited. We explain why in our statement below.

Our public-benefit action is socially beneficial. We have also addressed this in more detail in our letter regarding the action.

The attack on the gas-fired power plant is an act of self-defense and international solidarity with all those who protect the Earth and life. The infrastructures that serve the "technological attack" and promote the destruction of the Earth can be sabotaged. Fossil fuel energy production can be stopped. The smart city metropolises, like Berlin, can be prevented. With Stromnetz Berlin, a building block of this catastrophic vision of a smart city has been hit.

For us, it goes without saying that we ruled out any risk to human life at all times.

Our detailed statement is attached to this information.

NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS 2026. HAVE COURAGE!

Greed for power, greed for energy, greed for destruction

In this greed for energy, the earth is exhausted, drained, burned, ravaged, razed, raped, and destroyed. Entire regions are rendered uninhabitable by the heat. They simply burn. Or habitats disappear beneath the waves during floods or due to rising sea levels. Several thousand inhabitants of Tuvalu in the Pacific are already seeking refuge in Australia.

Last year, the CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere rose to 423.9 parts per million, a value that surpasses all previous records. At the same time, climate scientists agree that the massive transatlantic ocean currents will collapse sooner or later due to global warming. This collapse of ocean currents, which has so far afforded the North a mild climate, is only one part of the catastrophe that awaits us. The extent of this devastation is simply ignored, abstracted, and discussed at global climate conferences until the scale of the destruction disappears into tables and declarations of intent.

But the insatiable hunger for energy is eating its way through the Earth's crust and our lives, among other things to feed artificial intelligence, which then spouts stereotypes and absurdities, confusing, disorienting, and/or manipulating us. Meanwhile, with each new "learning" of the AI ​​using previous data, language, expression, and vitality are increasingly reduced, mutilated, and limited.

We feed our data to the so-called "clouds," which are nothing more than gigantic, energy-guzzling data centers and server farms. These also consume our drinking water and churn out numbers that bombard our screens with useless, supposedly important spam until we've forgotten how to look our neighbor in the eye. Having become dependent on these small devices, we're always ready to send an emoji and feed "Big Brother," whose algorithm registers our deviations from the norm and answers our search queries before we've even finished thinking. We sit with our friends while the feeds devour us, sinking into our devices instead of having real conversations. We're operating our own surveillance, and it's total. The tech companies are in the hands of the powerful men we give them. We consume the colorful images that the machines filter and serve up to us, starving in front of our screens from loneliness and alienation. We are becoming swiping zombies, knocking each other over in traffic. We are prisoners in a digital system that increasingly deprives us of our right to exist if we don't submit to its rules and relocate our lives to social media, chat, and artificial realities. We receive no money, can't book or buy anything with cash. Without access to the digital world, we are increasingly excluded, losing touch with what seems normal. We are afraid of what will happen to us and bury ourselves even deeper in our screens instead of switching off our devices and taking away the power over us of those who track, monitor, observe, and manipulate us. We are blinding ourselves to the knowledge for whose dissemination Edward Snowden risked his life. We are turning a deaf ear to the silent cries of Indigenous peoples and farmers who see the planet's life support system burning before their very eyes. On the contrary, with every post, we are feeding the fire that is encircling us and driving temperatures to new record highs every year. One day we will simply sit in front of glowing screens or inert devices, dying of thirst and hunger. It's no longer difficult to imagine.

We don't claim to know the way out. But we do know we must stop this destruction. Hedonism can no longer hold us captive once we've tasted the sweat of fear that spreads when there's no way out. No going forward, no going back. Only the horror of where we, as humanity, have ended up. When the question falls back on us, what did you actually do to prevent what was coming? You saw it coming, the survivors, the next generations, ask us. Please don't bring up the political parties. Please don't bring up the brown-shirted alternatives in pinstriped suits and dresses. And not the Greens or the Left either. Don't bring up the economy, whose free market will supposedly solve the problem. Economics and politics deal with death every day. With dictatorships and butchers. Their concerns vanish into thin air when it comes to satisfying our energy needs, for example. Russia is still supplying gas to Europe via Nord Stream 1. And the US wants Venezuela's oil. That's why military attacks are now taking place. And fracked gas arrives by ship from all over the world. Currently, 79% comes from the USA! Fracking is extremely environmentally damaging in its production. Even during extraction, a methane loss of 6 to 10 percent is assumed, which further warms the atmosphere.

95% of the gas burned in Germany is imported. At climate summits, only tactical lip service is forthcoming because the oil-producing countries are not interested in climate protection but in money. Because the major cities base their policies on money and growth, lobbyists in Europe are being handed the end of the combustion engine phase-out.

For example, the German Minister of Economic Affairs, Katharina Reiche, was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, a lobbyist for the Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKM), and a manager at the E.ON subsidiary Westenergie. Minister Reiche presents herself as a supporter of hydrogen but primarily relies on natural gas. She plans to issue tenders for additional gas-fired power plants with a capacity of 10 gigawatts, which are to be connected to the grid by 2031, corresponding to approximately 25 new power plants. 20 billion euros are earmarked for these new gas-fired power plants.

Reiche would prefer to postpone Germany's climate neutrality target from 2045 to 2050 anyway.

The main culprits behind human-induced climate destruction are not those who suffer the most, those who pay with their health and their lives. The people of the Global South are already paying the highest price. The countries of the Global North, and soon China among others, are deciding the fate of everyone. China, as a communist, racist, and patriarchal dictatorship, can use "rare earth elements" to blackmail countries that don't toe the line, gradually weaving countries, cultures, and political systems into the cocoon of this new dictatorial world power. Over 85% of the world's refined "rare earth elements" come from China. And it is the rich who are the problem. It is the super-rich who are setting the world ablaze. In the East, in the West, in the South, and in the North. Sixty percent of the super-rich's investments worldwide go into gas and oil. And around 300 super-rich countries emit more CO₂ than the 110 poorest countries in the world. These criminals know it. They don't care. Their greed for even more wealth and power sets the standard by which everyone else follows. They're preparing their own "salvation" on isolated islands or in space once they've burned this Earth. A few years ago, we would have laughed at these misogynistic lunatics, but they're dead serious. Zuckerberg wants more "masculine energy." Musk is "producing" children on an assembly line so his clan can survive.

None of the perpetrators are solving the "problem." And certainly, the fundamental problem isn't being solved regionally. On the contrary—the whole world is arming itself for the final great battle for raw materials, water, food, and access to strategically important regions, in order to prevent, or at least postpone, the demise of its own spheres of influence. So that the population can continue to be offered the opportunity to participate for as long as possible. So that we in the Global North, entangled in a world of consumption and an imperial lifestyle, participate and reinforce the power structure with its increasingly authoritarian concepts. Because it's no longer about freedom for all, it's only about security for a select few. The promise of security is an exclusive right of those who can enforce it for themselves. We make the losers pay for our imperial way of life, those too weak to defend themselves against "us."

We reject the offers of participation in a scorched world with our militant action. That's why we targeted the gas-fired power plant in Lichterfelde.

This won't prevent our own complicity in an imperial way of life at the expense of other lives, but it will send a signal. Once again, just as many people and groups in different parts of the world are doing. Just as some groups here, like the Vulkan groups, have been doing consistently since 2011.

We know these words don't reach many people – they've drifted so far from the idea of ​​a world and a way of living together that isn't based on destruction that these words reach them no more than the world's misery, broadcast daily in high definition on our screens. We can list facts for miles and miles and still find no one to listen.

We aren't the first, and we won't be the last, to try to reach people with words. We aren't the first or the last to resort to sabotage, because we're playing for time. At the same time, we and others are using the time gained to reverse the destruction of all life forms. People call us eco-terrorists, but we respect life. People call us irresponsible, but we take responsibility to end this imperial, destructive way of life.

Our public-spirited action is socially beneficial. We're trying to interrupt the exploitation of the Earth, prevent CO₂ deaths, and stop the diseases linked to the climate catastrophe. We are also trying to put an end to species extinction and make the world a more livable place for everyone. Those who call us "eco-terrorists" are themselves the real eco-terrorists, using this term to serve their own selfish interests and power calculations.

We see the unwitting, those who think they are clever and dismiss climate change as fake news. They mistake empathy for wokeness and only have their own advantage in mind, without recognizing how the things around them are interconnected. Behind this growing rejection of facts, we see a system of those who invest in the destruction of the Earth. These are the same people who hold the power over the tech companies that allow them to breed a human species that applauds when people drown, die of thirst, starve, or otherwise perish while trying to reach Europe or the USA. These manipulated welfare chauvinists and party supporters second Trump, Modi, Miley, Netanyahu, Merz, Weidel, Putin, Höcke, Orban, Vans, Xi, and all the rest of them in the "defense" of freedom. The freedom to decide who must die and who mustn't. Who has access to wealth and who mustn't. Every refugee who dies while fleeing has a counterpart here in deep depression. Every person who starves to death makes us fatter and sicker.

We people of the Global North, of the wealthy metropolises, derive no benefit from the misery of others. Material wealth is not wealth in the sense of an ideal that can rejoice in the lives of all.

If only a small segment of the population in every country says, "Enough is enough. Not with us anymore, not in my name. No more human beings should die at our expense." If we refuse to function and play along, if we become a wrench in the gears of a machine we ourselves have been feeding, then something will begin to move, then we can develop the power to stop the root causes once and for all.

But we need an international movement that rejects progress based solely on destruction, murder, and plunder. We cry out desperately, angrily, and resolutely, joining the calls of others: Sabotage the fossil fuel infrastructure, the power grids, the exploitation of the Earth, the data centers, the chip industry and its suppliers; destroy the foundations of the automotive and arms industries, of air travel, villas, yachts, spaceships, and golf courses. Destroy the police headquarters that guarantee patriarchal property relations, because the Earth belongs to itself and all living beings, not to humans, or rather, to men alone, and not to the richest among them. This cry of despair is also a wake-up call, a cry of hope, and it has no local boundaries; it is global. We are talking about an international that does not invoke a patriarch, not the gallery of heads that the communists venerate, but one that proceeds from diverse premises. An international that is understood in China, in Europe, the USA, in India and Pakistan, in every corner of the Earth where Starlink has reception, in every country where the deadly drone seeks its target and needs electricity to do so. In every country where, without energy, the warring forces are blind and people can leave the battlefields without anyone being able to issue orders to kill them. Where the stock exchanges no longer function and Bitcoins can no longer be accessed.

We'll say it again: we have ideas, but no definitive answers about the path. But we do have them about the goal. Every contribution counts. Trying everything within our power to put an end to this imperial way of life can't be wrong. The progress of destruction is man-made, and we can stop it. In the steps of resistance, in the echoes of diverse languages ​​and cultures, in what others send us, we will find and recognize ourselves. It's about the Earth. It's about life. It's about fighting against immature, foolish men at the levers of power who behave as if they were operating a toy excavator.

There is no time for frustration regarding the resistance to man-made climate change and the growing number of those who deny it. We must learn from our defeats, not by joining political parties, privatizing, or settling into collapse, but by creating facts. Shutting down a gas-fired power plant is one such fact, but it could also be occupying land, open spaces, and forests, destroying golf courses and airports belonging to the wealthy. Imagination and determination are required.

Switch off the greed for energy, switch off the digital management of life, switch off the progress of destruction.

Today we attacked the gas and steam turbine power plant in Lichterfelde. The plant produces a total electrical output of 300 MW using natural gas. The target was the high-voltage power lines, in order to cause significant damage to the company. We set fire to the cable bridge, which is not publicly recorded and runs from the Lichterfelde power plant over the Teltow Canal, on the side facing the green spaces. We additionally short-circuited the charred cable strands with steel bars lying around.

The energy company will have to purchase electricity on the open market in real time to fulfill its contractual obligations to supply electricity as soon as the supply disruption is noticed. We do not expect to have disconnected 100,000 households from the grid, but rather only from the gas-fired power plant's network. The redundant power grid will reconnect the households via other power lines through the extensive electricity network as quickly as possible. Purchasing energy at market prices in the short term may be more expensive than when the energy company bought the electricity on the Leipzig Power Exchange (EEX). To avoid paying high contractual penalties to individual energy consumers, they have no other option. We short-circuited over twenty 110 kV lines and did not include the district heating pipes in the short-circuit. However, we cannot rule out an impact on the district heating system.

Our action differs practically from the action in Adlershof on September 9, 2025, against the technology center. There, the issue was a power line that lacked redundant protection. The situation was similar with the "Turn Off Tesla Volcano Group," which disconnected Tesla from the grid by destroying a power line, affecting around 5,000 private households. In our case, the power is not being cut off at a facility like the technology park or the Gigafactory, causing a blackout. Instead, the power plant, with its extensive network of cables, is being disconnected from the grid. It will still produce electricity, but it can no longer feed it into the grid and therefore cannot supply it. The supply to private households via other power plants will be maintained, which is also the intention of the authorities and energy companies. Nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that our action will cause significant damage to individual transformer stations.

The district heating supply (thermal output around 690 MW) has not been interrupted by our action.

Individual households are not the target of the action. The aim of this action is to inflict significant damage on the gas industry and the insatiable demand for energy.

If extended power outages occur in private households, we want to make it clear that they are not the target of this attack. This effect was neither intended nor calculated by us. We have ruled out any risk to human life at all times.

Since we cannot be absolutely certain about what chain reactions, which are outside our control, might result from our shutdown of the gas plant, we have the following request for potentially affected households: Please ring your neighbors' doorbells. Consider providing power to elderly or vulnerable people in the event of a power outage. Provide for yourself and others by offering solidarity and support. Keep each other informed.

The Lichterfelde power plant was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swedish state-owned energy company Vattenfall AB, with an annual turnover of €7.6 billion and the fourth-largest electricity company after E.ON, RWE, and EnBW.

From 2021, the power plant was "re-municipalized" and belongs to the city of Berlin. As a result, the power plant is being partially dismantled and converted to increase capacity. This only sounds good at first glance.

Stromnetz Berlin GmbH is currently making extensive investments in expanding Berlin's grid infrastructure to meet the growing demands of the so-called energy transition. For this, Stromnetz Berlin's subsidiary BEN (Berliner Energie und Netzholding GmbH) is receiving €380 million from the European Investment Bank – "to prepare for the advancing energy transition." The "energy transition" is a smokescreen that obscures the fact that it's about energy without any transition, without ifs, ands, or buts. The main thing is energy, sustainable or not. Stromnetz Berlin plans to double its capacity by the beginning of 2030. The goal is a "modern," digitized electricity grid. Specifically, this means hundreds of thousands of meters of new power cables and grid components, as well as more digital services. We can imagine that this isn't being done out of the goodness of our hearts. Ostensibly, it's about the city's security of supply, but on closer inspection, it's about a growth mania in a government-driven competition. The battleground is the city and our living conditions. The city is a commodity. Competitiveness with other major cities is intended to drive the establishment of more startups, more defense research and manufacturing companies, more digital service providers, and tech companies that consume even more electricity than the millions of Berliners use privately. It's also about e-mobility, which, of course, doesn't aim to promote public transport, but rather to generate even more cars powered by lithium batteries, even more AI-driven systems that churn out self-driving private vehicles. This is all masquerading as "infrastructure expansion," which will cost the state another 3 billion euros by 2029, as the A100 motorway continues to encroach deeper into the city. Investments of up to 770 million euros are being made to modernize the power grid.

All of this sounds incredibly dull, but it's of great importance to us as people in Berlin and Brandenburg, because it's our lives, our land, our water, our future that are at stake. For Giffey, the SPD's economic liberal, expanding grid capacity and building new power lines is a key prerequisite for Berlin's attractiveness as an investment location. These economically liberal destroyers of a livable future think of the city in terms of numbers, sums of money, growth rates, and competition with other cities. People don't count, or only as categories of low-income or high-income earners. The former must somehow be managed and contained—even through police and repressive measures, such as walling off a park in Kreuzberg. And the latter must be flattered, because their money stimulates consumption. For this group, the city is made smart and beautiful. Berlin is a brand and is marketed as such.

For Giffay, the expansion of the power grid is like the rapid digitalization of everyday life, as if it were a force of nature crashing down upon us. As if tech companies and tech fascists weren't deciding on the implementation of AI, which, according to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, will double global electricity consumption by 2030. As if politicians and economic liberals weren't themselves deciding when cash payments are no longer possible on BVG buses and people are forced into digital payments, thereby also being tracked, in a defiant city with a tradition of militant movements that must be controlled. As if politicians weren't deciding when they hand over the surveillance software Palantir to the police and intelligence services, software whose driving force is a fascist from the USA and whose software envisions a digital network for monitoring people. Giffay promotes the expansion of the grid with "our" companies and the increasing electrification of mobility: "Out of love for Berlin, the most modern electricity grid for the climate-neutral capital." And, adept at defusing criticism, Stromnetz Berlin has included "citizens' councils" as mere fig leaves, which can exercise ludicrous participation in trivial matters but have no say in the direction of energy policy decisions or the city's development. After Vattenfall and the city were forced, due to a broad citizens' initiative, to initiate a "re-municipalization," a nationalization of the electricity grid, and appoint BEN as the owner, they are carrying on with business as usual, and the madness continues unabated. The vision is clear: Smart City – Stromnetz Berlin states it: "Berlin is on its way to becoming one of the leading smart city metropolises. This transformation process has already begun in all areas of urban life." And: “Intelligent infrastructures, and especially the ‘smart grid’ (intelligent power grid), will form the foundation – as a networked operating system, it will become the backbone and catalyst of the energy transition.” Apart from the fact that we consider the term “energy transition” to be a smokescreen and would replace it with “technological attack on humane relations,” we agree.

The specific attacks on the Adlershof Technology Park, Tesla's Gigafactory, the infrastructure of the Vattenfall Reuter coal-fired power plant, and the Vodafone hub in Adlershof are reference points for our action, as are the many militant actions that are setting an example against the destruction of our planet. Even if these acts of sabotage cause significant financial losses, they cannot, as individual actions, force a change in political direction. But they point the way and the direction that we recommend to all major cities. Disable the infrastructure that serves the "technological attack" and promotes the destruction of the Earth. The consensus on participating in the project of an imperial way of life is irrevocable. A mass social movement against the global destruction of the foundations of life and against all wars and resource plunder goes hand in hand with the ability to sabotage power grids and energy networks.

The attack on the gas-fired power plant is an act of international solidarity with all those who protect the Earth and life. Our resistance is multifaceted, and often, in the fog of disinformation, differing cultural perspectives, and linguistic differences, we still need too much time to recognize our common ground. But we are confident that even in the darkness, the light is not far away. When we place this action in the context of a global resistance—whether in the USA, Latin America, Asia, China, or Russia, in Europe or Australia—directed against all forms of dominance, domination, and destruction of the Earth, we are confident that we will be heard, that these contributions will be translated, that translated contributions will reach us, that a subversive communication will take place along the winding paths of resistance, a communication that recognizes one another. And intervenes. And this, if possible, without shedding blood, but determined to cut off the power of those in power.

Volcano Group: Cut off the power of those in power.

We can no longer afford the rich.

Initiate the end of the imperial way of life.

Shutting down fossil fuel power plants is manual labor.

Stop the plundering of the Earth.

Freedom for all antifascists, climate activists, and all the other rebels."

Five observations: First, whoever wrote it....highly educated but lacking any economic 'common-sense'.  Second, they use the term 'we' a good bit, but it wouldn't surprise me if this group were just one single person.  Third, from the prospective of understanding grid-production-to-each-'nickel'....they have no understanding.  Fourth, they (maybe this one person) has still more planned attacks, and they could get worse.  Fifth and final....they (maybe that one person) want you to live in their fantasy world, period....with no other options possible. 

I should add...on my anti-capitalist index (1-to-10)....they are absolutely pinging at  TEN.  Everything about them....their shoes...their clothing...their apartment appeal....all second-hand and long-kept.  On electrical use within their apartment?   They probably are the guy with the 3-watt bulb....survive without a toaster, and make their coffee the 1960s style...pouring hot water through a paper-filter of coffee  grounds.