New ENEDIS status report
BORDEAUX (awp/afp) – About 6,000 homes were still without electricity, mainly in New Aquitaine and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, after the passage of storm Diego, network manager Enedis announced on Saturday evening in a new point position.
Of the 70,000 homes that have been affected by power cuts since Friday evening, “6,000 customers remain to be restored, mainly in New Aquitaine, around the Gironde estuary, and in Auvergne”, indicated the manager of the electricity network Enedis. .
“Following the passage of storm Diego which hit France yesterday (Friday) afternoon, today (Saturday), at 6:30 p.m., more than 90% of customers without electricity were supplied in 24 hours”, a underlined Enedis, adding that “the return to normal is expected tomorrow (Sunday) during the day”.
Enedis claims to have “mobilized significant technical and human resources to intervene in the field” with the presence of “more than 1,000 technicians from Enedis and partner companies” supported in particular by “helicopters and drones”, which allow “to locate the damage on the electrical network”.
Since Saturday morning, there is no longer any department on orange alert. The forecast operator Météo France lifted the alert on Saturday morning for “strong winds” which still concerned three departments of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region – Puy-de-Dôme, Loire and Haute-Loire, as for the neo-Aquitaine departments of Charente-Maritime, Vienne and Deux-Sèvres, which came out of vigilance on Friday evening. The orange alert in Savoie for “high risk of avalanches in the high mountains” was also lifted on Saturday morning.
In the north of Gironde, a man was seriously injured on Friday when a tree fell on his caravan located on private land in Saint-Laurent-d’Arce.
Falling trees on the railway tracks severely disrupted the circulation of TER and TGV trains on Friday. TGV travelers departing from Paris were stuck on board their train for several hours, in the Tours sector, before being transshipped at night, according to the testimony on Twitter of the former Minister of Transport Dominique Bussereau who was on one of these trains.
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