A number of districts of southern Paris had been plunged into darkness on Thursday evening because of an influence outage that French grid operator RTE tied to a technical glitch on an electrical transformer of vitality provider Enedis.

The incident comes amid worries that energy blackouts may cripple infrastructure in France as the primary chilly snap of the winter checks the resilience of the facility community.

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Many streets in Paris’s third, fourth, fifth arrondissements had been hit by the facility cuts round 10:15 p.m. (2115 GMT) and energy was restored round 11:00 p.m., RTE’s division for the area encompassing Paris, Ile de France, stated on Twitter.

“Round 125,000 households had been affected on the peak of the incident,” it stated.

Authorities ministers have warned of doable energy outages in case of a spot between provide and demand, which they stated would final now not than two hours and be flagged upfront.

State-run utility EDF, a dad or mum firm of Enedis, is racing to get nuclear reactors hit by corrosion issues again on line.