This Sunday from 8:30 a.m., some of the inhabitants of the Bordeaux region found themselves without electricity. The outage lasted until around 11 a.m. and affected, at the height of the incident, 120,000 homes located in the east of the Bordeaux metropolitan area and in the municipalities of Cenon, Bègles, Sainte-Eulalie and Latresne.
Automatic safety
“This incident, which occurred at the Floirac station, concerned our electrical transformers,” explained this Monday RTE (Electricity Transmission Network). Conventional organs of the electricity network making it possible to lower the electrical voltage to supply the distribution network, in particular. »
The manager explains that in the event of an anomaly on the electricity transmission network, an automatic shutdown of the system takes place, and can cause power cuts, “like at home”, specifies RTE.
“Finding other paths to electricity”
“Our teams were fully mobilized on the ground as soon as these outages occurred to restore electricity supply to the area as quickly as possible,” points out RTE’s communications department. But also in collaboration with the Enedis teams to find other routes to electricity and try to restore power to residents who have been cut off as soon as possible. »
Homes were gradually repaired and, less than two hours after the start of the outage, electricity was restored to all homes.