Power outages organized by EDF agents to challenge the government’s pension plan have intensified considerably. According to EDF, the plants show a load drop of 3400 MW this afternoon at the plants due to the staff strike. This power is equivalent to almost 4 reactors combined.
In the morning, the CGT Mines Energie federation published a brochure on social networks announcing “more than 7000 MW of production drop without any impact on users”.
44.5% of the total EDF workforce on strike
The participation of EDF employees in the strike against the pension reform project amounted to 44.5% of the total workforce at noon, indicated the management of the energy company, a figure much higher than that of previous events of this type .
The rate of strikers during the first and most followed days of mobilization against the previous pension reform project stood at 36.5% at noon
EDF strikers provoked this thursday significant reductions in production at the power plant level, the equivalent of at least double the consumption of Paris, specified the manager of the high and very high voltage lines RTE. These actions worry Enedis.
And to warn that she “systematically files a complaint with the police and gendarmerie services.”
Source: BFM TV
