The Dordogne victim of a giant power outage: “125,000 homes are affected” because of an “incident”

The inhabitants of the Dordogne probably woke up in the dark and without a telephone network this Wednesday, November 13. And for good reason, a power cut affected a large part of the department as announced by RTE in South-West, on its X account. The transport network also indicated that nearly 125,000 households were affected in total.

“A power cut is underway in Dordogne. Our teams are mobilized to restore electricity as quickly as possible” it was written at 8:26 a.m. The outage began at 8:03 a.m., the company said. The incident “follows a technical problem in an electrical substation,” she added.

A very high voltage line affected

For its part, Enedis mentioned an “incident” on a very high voltage line as shared by France Bleu Périgord. These lines, of 225,000 volts, serve a lot of houses, hence the 125,000 homes affected. One of the consequences is the extinction of traffic lights in the large towns of the Bergerac and Périgueux department, as some Périgourdins have reported to our colleagues.

At this time, no return date or time has been communicated by the electricity transmission network.