2023-12-01 21:56:51
Enedis technicians work on power lines damaged by storm Ciaran on November 7 in Ergué-Gabéric, in Finistère. Marie Sebire/PHOTOPQR/LE TELEGRAMME/MAXPPP
DECRYPTION – Operators are strengthening and reviewing their infrastructure to cope with storms, floods, heatwaves, etc.
Each time there is bad weather, such as recently during storm Ciaran in Brittany and Normandy and the floods in Pas-de-Calais, the same question arises: are French telecoms and electrical infrastructures sufficiently resilient? A tree falls on a line, poles collapse in the wind: why not bury these cables to protect them? The answer is not so simple, when, a few days after the gale in the North-West, torrential rains drowned part of Pas-de-Calais, and with them certain crucial installations…
All the actors have the stakes in mind. The passage of the “storm of the century» in 1999 was a first electroshock, confirmed by the climatic events of recent years – storms and floods this fall, fires in Gironde in the summer of 2022, floods and landslides in the Roya valley, in the fall of 2021, for cite only the most recent ones. More than ever, EDF, its subsidiary Enedis, the manager…
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