France Storm, Edf 100 000 Out of Power, $130 Bn for New Grid ?

Power lines in the mountains hard to reach

The mass of snow, fallen since Saturday in the departments from the Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Corrèze, Aveyron and Lozere, caused extensive damage on the distribution networks and electricity grids. According to a person in charge of ERDF, the subsidiary company of distribution of EDF, the great difficulty for the 1.000 agents on-site to turn on the power, it is to locate the damaged lines. And once located, to reach them to finally be able to repair them. “We cannot say when the power supply will be restored

The re-boot of 100% Electricity power could take 4 to 5 days. France Telecom endeavours “to restore the telephone of almost 32.000 people”.In South-east, Savoy, Hautes-Alpes, Alp-of-High-Provence and the Alpes-Maritimes were placed under orange alert because of the risk of avalanches.

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