Electricity restored for all residents of Guadeloupe – rts.ch

“At midnight (local time), EDF teams replenished all customers in Guadeloupe (i.e. 230,000 customers),” EDF said in a press release.

The outage affected Guadeloupe on Friday from 8:30 a.m. local time, following the shutdown of the engines at the EDF-PEI Jarry power plant which supplies the majority of electricity to the territory of nearly 380,000 inhabitants.

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EDF, via its subsidiary EDF-PEI, filed a complaint against X on Friday, for “endangering others”, and its teams are “continuing actions to secure the electricity network”, EDF said on Sunday.

The energy company recalled that it was “strongly recommended to apply energy sobriety instructions during this phase of restarting the means of production”.

Social movement

While a social conflict has been going on for several weeks between the energy branch of the CGT and the management of EDF Insular Electric Production (PEI), the prefect Xavier Lefort accused, shortly after the cut, “striking employees” of the power plant of Jarry who “entered the control room” and “caused the emergency shutdown of all the engines”.

The gendarmes intervened to “secure the control room”, explained the prefect who then requisitioned employees.

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In a press release published on Saturday evening, the Energy Federation of the CGTG (FE-CGTG) affirmed that “its calls for strike are always in compliance with the red cross plan (supplies necessary for feeding all priority lines) in conjunction with the prefecture.

The social movement, which has lasted since September 15, concerns the implementation of an agreement signed at the beginning of 2023, after two months of strike to demand compliance of contracts and remuneration with labor law.

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