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Power blackout briefly hits parts of Paris
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Posted on November 20, 2025
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
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1 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
A power blackout in Paris affected 170,000 households due to a substation issue. Power was mostly restored within hours.
PARIS (Reuters) -A power blackout briefly hit parts of Paris on Thursday morning, which French grid operator RTE linked to a technical incident at its Issy-Les-Moulineaux electrical substation, southwest of the French capital.
The exact origin of the incident remains unknown and investigations are underway, an RTE spokesperson said.
The outage, which also halted a few metro and suburban trains, initially left some 170,000 households without electricity from 0538 GMT.
Power was quickly restored and by 0650 GMT only about 2,600 households still remained without electricity, RTE said.
French electricity supplier Enedis said earlier that it expected power to be fully restored by 0800 GMT.
(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Charlotte Van Campenhout, additional reporting by Forrest CrellinEditing by Gareth Jones)
A power blackout is a temporary loss of electrical power in a specific area, often caused by technical failures or maintenance issues within the electrical grid.
An electrical substation is a facility in the electrical grid where voltage is transformed from high to low or vice versa, ensuring efficient power distribution to homes and businesses.
A grid operator is responsible for managing the electricity supply and demand on the power grid, ensuring stability and reliability of electricity distribution.
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