2012 Activity and sustainable development report - RTE

JOINT SUCCESSINVOLVING STAKEHOLDERS€171 mis RTE’s financial contributionto the construction of the PACAsafety net.€236 mis the total investment for deployingthe programme in the upper valleyof the Durance.A RACE AGAINST TIME TO RESTORE POWERIN NORTHERN FRANCE / On the night of 4 March 2012,extremely heavy snowfall caused widespread electricity outagesin the Lille metropolis and the Maubeuge region and broughtdown the overhead wires on the high-speed Paris-Lille TGV line.Four priority intervention groups dispatched from Béthune,Valenciennes, Reims and Rouen, supported by engineering andmaintenance teams and specialists in helicopter operations,worked round the clock to restore power as quickly as possibleand enable rail traffic to resume.SETTING UP A SAFETY NET IN THE PACA REGION /The eastern part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regionproduces only 10% of the electricity that it consumes, andit is served by a single 400 kV line. In the event of an outage,the 225 kV network is unable to ensure the continuity of supply.To strengthen the network, the construction of a hundredkilometresafety net was begun in 2012: when it is commissionedin 2015, the safety net will consolidate electricity supplyto the region and its 2 million inhabitants until 2030, whilealso facilitating the growth of renewable energies.RTE | IN LINE WITH THE FUTURE65