Heat: 6,000 Private Electricity Customers Due to High Heat, According to Enedis

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Some 8,000 customers were deprived of electricity in Île-de-France, in the South-East and the South, a figure reduced to 6,000 at midday. The fault of the heavy heats that overheat the tarred soils, and hence the underground networks.

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All over France, the overheating of the underground electricity distribution system causes power cuts. According to Enedis, 8,000 households were deprived of power on the morning of July 2. It is now a chestnut tree. Each year, during heat waves, certain points of the electricity distribution network do not support intense heat and end up yielding. The main cause: the underground junction boxes in urban areas, buried a few tens of centimetres un…

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An exceptional episode of heat puts pressure on underground networks, causing electricity cuts for thousands of households.