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.

A severe and sustained heatwave across Europe has triggered widespread deaths, shattered temperature records, and disrupted transport, work, and public...

France struggles with extreme heat and power grid challenges as temperature records also smashed in parts of UK, Spain.

The early-summer wave is already drawing comparisons to the 2003 disaster that killed 15,000.

Europe braced Wednesday for another day of a sweltering heatwave that has smashed records, left tens of thousands of people without power and sent air conditioner sales zooming in…

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…

Heatwave forces power cuts to 68,000 homes in western France: media

Power outage linked to transformer failure amid extreme heat in France’s Finistère region

A power outage caused by a record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in France's western Brittany on Wednesday as the national weather agency…

Europe's record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in northwestern France on Wednesday, authorities said, in the country's first major power…

Authorities in northern France raced Wednesday to restore power to thousands of homes after widespread outages struck during a punishing heat wave that has...

Europe's record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in northwestern France on Wednesday, authorities said, in the country's first major power…

Temperatures of 40 to 45C are forecast in France on Wednesday 24 June, wildfire alerts are in force in the centre and 68,000 homes in Finistère are without power. #EuropeNews

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France's record-breaking heatwave triggered its first major outage, leaving 68,000 homes without electricity in northwestern regions during the country's hottest day ever.

A heat-related power outage left around 68,000 homes without electricity in western France as record-breaking heat sweeps Europe.

Tens of thousands of homes are without power in western France, with temperatures set to peak across the country on Wednesday during a record-breaking heatwave.