Several dams were affected by these production cuts, according to the federal secretary of the FNME-CGT.
EDF agents proceeded on Wednesday, in the dams, to the first cuts in electricity production in connection with the movement against the pension reform, causing the loss on the network of the equivalent of a nuclear reactor, without cause power cuts, we learned from concordant sources.
«There are already production cuts in hydraulics at this time“, indicated to AFP Fabrice Coudour, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT, indicating that “it stresses the network but it has no impact for the user“, confirmed by the manager of high voltage lines RTE. EDF confirmed this drop in production in an information message on its site: “Loss of power available in progress on the EDF hydraulic park: 1210 MW. This unavailability is linked to the ongoing social movement».
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French nuclear reactors produce between 900 and 1450 MW of electricity. If there is a risk of outages, RTE may have to ask the operators to stop production cuts, as it has been able to do in the past. “There, we don’t do it, because we can compensate with our means of production, so there is no impact on the security of electricity supply“, confirms RTE.