8-Hour Power Outage in Kartepe: Affected Areas and Details

Many neighborhoods in the Kartepe district of Kocaeli will face a long-term energy outage due to a planned power cut scheduled for Friday, July 3, 2026. Announced by Sakarya Elektrik Dağıtım A.Ş. (SEDAŞ), this planned outage will start at 09:00 in the morning and continue until 17:00 in the evening, lasting a total of 8 hours. Within the scope of this large-scale maintenance work, electricity will not be available to settlements and main transportation arteries across the district. Citizens are strongly advised to be prepared for this long outage period and take necessary precautions in advance. Although the official source has not specified the reason for the outage and technical details, the breadth of the program indicates that significant infrastructure work is being carried out.

While the regions to be affected by the outage cover a fairly wide geography, the highest impact will be felt in the Akmeşe Atatürk, Akmeşe Cumhuriyet, Beşevler, İbrikdere, Maşukiye, Uzuntarla, Yanık, Acısu, Bayraktar, Gedikli, Uzunbey and Zeytinburnu neighborhoods. Power cuts will be applied to all avenues, streets, site roads, highway connections, and locations called rural areas and cluster houses within the boundaries of the aforementioned neighborhoods. The inclusion of transit routes such as the North Marmara Highway and Anadolu Highway, as well as crowded areas like the SEKA Camp, demonstrates the scope of the work. In these regions, both residents and drivers joining traffic will be affected by the period without electricity.

Due to the work to be carried out on power lines at different points of the district, although five separate outage records were created, the time intervals and durations of all these records show exactly the same characteristics. According to the information in the records, the energy cut will begin simultaneously at 09:00 in the morning in all determined regions without any partial application. The answer to the question of when the electricity will come is fixed for all these records as 17:00 in the evening. Since the total outage period is planned as 8 hours, citizens need to arrange their daily plans accordingly and fully charge their electronic devices.

In neighborhood-based examinations, it is seen that regions with high population density such as Maşukiye and Uzunbey are included in the outage list multiple times and with different street groups. This situation shows that those living in these neighborhoods need to check not only the neighborhood name but also the specific avenue and street names where they reside. For example, Uzunbey Neighborhood appears in two different records, spreading over a wide area covering central places such as Cumhuriyet Caddesi and Reform Caddesi as well as other streets. Similarly, separate details were made for Sapanca Yolu and surrounding site roads in Maşukiye and Acısu regions.

It is of great importance that the people of Kartepe frequently check SEDAŞ's official announcements and current subscriber information on the website against possible disruptions during this outage period. Especially if signalized intersections or signaling systems on highways and site roads do not work during working hours, drivers need to be extra careful and cautious in traffic. Taking precautions in advance regarding issues such as preserving food in the refrigerator and keeping medical devices operational during the 8-hour period without electricity will prevent possible victimization. The region's energy flow is planned to return to normal after the outage ends at 17:00.