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French reporting describes a national tabletop blackout simulation planned for 2027. It tests crisis coordination without deliberately cutting household electricity.
France is preparing an exercise that simulates a generalized electricity blackout in 2027. Le Dauphine reported that the national resilience committee had decided to organize the exercise, and Ouest-France's Android MT coverage describes a tabletop simulation planned for the second half of that year.
The distinction matters: a simulated outage is a planning scenario. The reporting describes ministries, military administration, local authorities and the grid operators RTE and Enedis rehearsing their response without cutting electricity to households.
The exercise also considers communicating with the public if phone networks are disrupted. A power emergency is therefore more than a question of restoring lights; it tests whether institutions can coordinate and keep information moving when familiar channels are unreliable.
For households, the useful question is how a plan works when a phone, charger or regular source of information is unavailable. Keep important contact details accessible and understand which local channels carry official updates. The 2027 exercise is preparation for a scenario, not a forecast that a nationwide outage will occur.