Explosions on the Grid: 68,000 Households without Electricity
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Western Europe is experiencing a new heat wave in a third year, with red warnings of extreme weather in several countries, France being the most affected by record temperatures, dozens of people dying from heat incidents throughout the country, thousands of houses in West Brittany have been left without electricity, and the synoptics predict a little cold only for weekends.
A giant failure deprived 120,000 Bretons of electricity in the heatwave on the evening of Tuesday, June 23rd. The cause: a transformer that would have exploded under the heat.
About 68,000 households were deprived of electricity this Wednesday in the south-west of the department, following the fire of a transformer linked to the high heats.
Two explosions in an electric station in Ergué-Gabéric deprived tens of thousands of homes in the South-Finistry of electricity. The incident, of accidental origin, could be linked to the high heats.
More than 100,000 homes are in the Finistère without electricity. There were still 68,000 at the end of the morning. The breakdown is linked to two explosions on a transformer on Tuesday night near Quimper. The reason is: overheated electrical installations. In the heat wave, the inhabitants are therefore left without air conditioners or fans. In a building, eight floors are forced to walk, for lack of elevators. There is also a solution for foo…
The TEN overhead lines suffer: with high temperatures, the cables expand and, in some cases, they get dangerously close to the ground.
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