Enedis will pay a total of 130 million euros in compensation, a record amount, to the customers most affected by the electricity outages caused by storm Ciaran that hit Brittany on November 1 and 2, the manager of the electrical distribution network. . Enedis began to pay compensation to customers affected by power outages of more than five consecutive hours, according to the manager who confirmed the information published in The echoes. The process will take place over several months.
More than a million homes without electricity
This compensation mechanism for customers permanently deprived of electricity has already been imposed on the distributor Enedis since 2017, but it has a limit of 480 euros for a 6 kVA subscription (kilovolt-ampere, which measures the electrical power that the meter can withstand). and 720 euros for a 9 kVA subscription, Enedis said. The current regulations establish that if individuals “remain without electricity for more than 5 hours, they will systematically benefit from the payment of a lump sum of 2 euros without taxes per kVA of subscribed power for every 5 consecutive hours of electricity outage, within a limit of 8 days and 8 hours maximum, explained the manager.
In total, 1.2 million homes were left without electricity across France, including 780,000 in Brittany, following the passage of Storm Ciaran, marked by wind gusts exceeding 170 km/h. In addition to compensation, Enedis indicates that it has mobilized 70 million euros to restore electricity supply to customers cut off in Brittany, repair power lines and send teams and their agents to disaster areas.
Source: BFM TV
