The final stretch is the most difficult. Two weeks after the passage of Storm Ciaran, the manager of the electricity distribution network Enedis informs us that the electricity supply has been restored to more than 99.5% of the affected homes. There are, therefore, 3,000 customers still without electricity, more than two thirds of which are in Finistère (2,300 specifically), while the rest is distributed almost equally between the Côtes d’Armor (400) and Morbihan (300 ). Enedis recalls that 2,400 electricians remain mobilized every day in the Breton region.
An average of 9,000 works per day in Brittany from Ciaran
To explain these recovery operations that extend over time, the local representative of Enedis underlines the unprecedented nature of the storm: “Historical wind records have been broken in the territory of Finistère and on the Côtes d’Armor. They have caused “significant damage to our networks, requiring heavy operations.” Furthermore, the intervention conditions were complex after Ciaran passed due to the rains and winds that remained significant on the ground. “In Breton territory, there are many isolated houses fed by quite long networks that sometimes need to be rebuilt,” adds Frédéric Le Tallec, who claims to have rebuilt 1,000 kilometers of line in the last two weeks.
In Brittany alone no less than 9,000 projects have been carried out since the storm hit, at a rate of 600 to 1,000 per day. The regional delegate director of Enedis remembers where he was yesterday to intervene on three broken poles: “We had to cross very humid fields with mud in which we sank. Our colleagues carried the ladders and the material, we crossed a stream but it is a work under construction which is actually nothing exceptional.”
Source: BFM TV
