Overview
- Enedis reports restoring power to roughly 80% of about 900,000 initially affected customers by Saturday morning.
- About 182,000 customers remain without service at 9 a.m., with Gironde (36,000), Landes (34,000) and Dordogne (27,000) the hardest hit.
- More than 4,000 personnel, along with helicopters and hundreds of generators, are deployed as flooding, strong winds and waterlogged ground hinder repairs.
- Outages were largely caused by fallen trees and toppled pylons that brought down overhead lines, with high‑voltage feeders repaired before local networks.
- The storm renewed scrutiny of undergrounding: roughly 52% of Enedis’s network is already buried, yet full burial is estimated to cost two to eight times more than aerial lines, complicate repairs and expose cables to flood damage, and Enedis warns it would raise bills.