Overview

• Over 100 discrete outages hit Paris on July 5 after extreme heat cracked underground cable connectors and junction boxes.
• A strike by three of Enedis’s four Paris intervention offices, in protest over on-call housing compensation, has slowed restoration efforts since June 12.
• Ongoing network modernization works in several districts have compounded service interruptions alongside weather-driven failures.
• High-profile sites such as the Galeries Lafayette near boulevard Haussmann and auxiliary buildings of the Assemblée Nationale were among the affected zones.
• The labor dispute centers on proposed cuts to a reduced-rent housing allowance for on-call agents, posing risks of further delays to full network recovery.