FRANKFURT, March 11 (Reuters) - Tesla's German

gigafactory near Berlin could be supplied with electricity again

from Monday, the power firm in charge of fixing the ongoing

power outage, which has downed the plant since March 5, said.

E.dis, a division of German energy network firm E.ON

, late on Sunday said speedy assembly work through the

weekend meant there was a chance that supply could restart in

the evening hours of Monday.

The company said this depended on a high-voltage test as

well as the official approval by engineers, both of which are

expected to take place in the course of the day.

News about the early resumption of power supply comes

after the works council chief of Tesla's German plant on Friday

said that the factory would restart this week, without

mentioning a specific date.

The outage has cost Tesla around 1,000 cars per day that

it cannot produce, with the factory's head saying last week that

the supply disruption would cause damages in the high

triple-digit million euro area.