France heatwave’s first major outage leaves 68,000 homes without power
The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures and did not injure anyone
June 24, 2026 05:30
RENNES, France: Europe’s record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in western France on Wednesday, the authorities said, in the country’s first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme weather.
The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures and did not injure anyone, the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere said in a statement.
