The French electricity grid was forced to cut off power to around 2 million people in the southeast of the country Monday in order to avoid a massive regional blackout, the operator RTE said.
The French electricity grid was forced to cut off power to around 2 million
people in the southeast of the country Monday in order to avoid a massive
regional blackout, the operator RTE said.
France
had
to import power earlier than normal this winter and had warned cold weather
could force cuts because of near record consumption and delays to maintenance
in its network of nuclear power stations.
"RTE has put in place a program of controlled load-shedding in order to
avoid a complete black-out in the region," an RTE spokesman told AFP,
referring to the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region.
This area includes the major Mediterranean
port
of
Marseille
, the
cities of Nice and
Toulon
, the
resorts of the French Riviera and major Alpine ski stations. It is home to 4.7
million people and is vulnerable to power shortages.
Some districts of downtown Marseille, including the city center, and the
suburbs of Nice, were without power in the afternoon.
The spokesman said the problem was caused by increased power use due to
freezing temperatures and a "technical incident" at a power sub-station
in Tavel, near
Avignon
, in
the southern
Rhone
valley.
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