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## Storm Nils Hits France: 900,000 Without Power
winds at 160 km/h, floods, falling trees: images of storm Nils which hits France
Some 900,000 Enedis customers were without electricity at the end of the morning, mainly in the Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions. “Thanks to the weather forecasts that we had, from Tuesday, we were able to pre-mobilize reinforcements and we thus have 1000 technicians employed by Enedis who are present for the repairs, with 400 technicians from companies, service providers, including pruners to help cut down the trees which could hinder the repairs” indicated Mr.Champenois.
PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP
but the storm, which he described as “quite exceptional” finally presents “an area which is wider than what we had at the very beginning, and that is why we are strengthening the system that we were able to put in place” he explained. In addition to human resources, 170 equipment kits were sent to the field, while “200 generators and helicopters are awaiting authorization” to go on intervention, said Mr. Champenois.
He brought this event closer to the Storm Ciaran which ravaged the north-west of France in November 2023, depriving 1.2 million homes of power at the height of the event, in Brittany and Normandy. Like Ciaran, storm Nils “cumulates very strong winds” which cause tree falls “and intense rains” leading to flooding likely to “complicate troubleshooting” underlined Hervé Champenois. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, its teams “carried out maneuvers which, remotely, made it possible to resupply the first customers affected by the storm” he reported. Asked to make a forecast
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