EAround 30,000 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.
“Following the passage of storm Diego, nearly 30,000 customers are still without electricity, particularly in New Aquitaine, around the Gironde estuary, and in Auvergne”, indicated Enedis in a point on the state of the power grid at 8:30 a.m.
“Half of the customers affected were resupplied in less than 24 hours thanks to the automation of the electrical networks allowing remote maneuvers and the pre-mobilization of the Enedis teams from the first weather alerts”, specified the operator.
According to Enedis, “more than 1,000 technicians from Enedis and partner companies are on the ground to carry out the necessary diagnoses and resupply the customers concerned as quickly as possible”.
Orange vigilance for “violent winds” which concerned three departments of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region – Puy-de-Dôme, Loire and Haute-Loire – was lifted on Saturday morning by Météo France, as for the neo-Aquitaine departments of Charente-Maritime, Vienne and Deux-Sèvres, which had come out of the alert on Friday evening.
The orange alert continues in Savoie due to a “high risk of avalanches in the high mountains”.
09/04/2022 10:23:21 – Bordeaux (AFP) – © 2022 AFP