2023-11-04 11:14:23
Enedis technicians work to restore electricity to Lanildut, in Finistère, on November 2, 2023. DAMIEN MEYER / AFP
Some 260,000 homes are still without electricity on the morning of Saturday, November 4, due to the passage of storm Ciaran, announced Enedis, public manager of the electricity distribution network.
“At 8 a.m., 260,000 customers remain to be replenished, particularly in Brittany (200,000) and Normandy (51,000)”, is it explained in a press release. Since the storm passed, “78% of customers have been restored”or more than 900,000 households, said Enedis, which has mobilized 3,400 employees and service providers since Thursday morning.
The previous Enedis update reported 875,000 customers without electricity on Friday at 6 p.m. There were 1.2 million Thursday morning after the storm passed.
Storm Ciaran claimed the lives of three people in France and left damage that will take several days to resolve.
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The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who visited Finistère on Friday, the most affected department, called on the population to “remain extremely vigilant[e] » the coming days. “We have a fight, which is to restore normal life as quickly as possible”he also affirmed, with the objective of restoring electricity to 90% of affected households by Monday.
Météo-France will place eleven departments on orange alert on Saturday evening as the Domingos storm approaches, which will cause “violent gusts of wind” on the Atlantic coast, meteorologists said. In particular, Vendée, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Charente-Maritime, Charente and Gironde are affected by orange wind vigilance from 6 p.m.
Friday morning, the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, mentioned “quite variable situations, places where repair [allait] be able to be done in the coming hours and places, notably in Finistère, where power lines [avaient] been completely chopped up ». This department concentrated ” more than half “ homes deprived of electricity in Brittany, he said.
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