Power cuts: the government promises home visits for people at risk

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The objective is to clear the ground and reassure somehow. The Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, assures, this Wednesday, that people at high vital risk will be the subject of a personalized follow-up if France must be confronted in the coming weeks with power cuts.

This position comes two days after a statement by the spokesperson for Enedis, in charge of managing the electricity network. On Monday, Laurent Méric explained on the BFM set that “people who are at high vital risk are not among the priority customers defined by the prefectures”. He had taken care to specify that “we will call them, we will send them an SMS, an email, to see if they have taken precautions. “They can then be taken” to a place which will not be relieved so that the greatest guarantee is brought to them “.

“Just because we’re working on a road accident doesn’t mean it’s going to happen”

Asked about BFMTV and RMC, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, claims to have “been forced to reframe (Enedis) very directly. We don’t start talking about patients who need life support as if it were a product”. “Patients at high vital risk are listed by Enedis and if there is no response, we find a solution. »

She adds that “the spokesperson does not go all the way. Because it does not say that we go to people’s homes to ensure that there is no risk. If the Enedis agents cannot reach them, they go to the home”.

But, revived, to find out if it is true or false that people at risk could be deprived of power, the minister refuses to answer and circumvents the problem. “The scenarios we are working on have an extremely low probability. Just because we’re working on a road accident doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. The fact that we are working on it does not mean that it will happen. The main thing is how we continue to reduce our electricity consumption. »

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