Power restored after outage hit the prominent film festival on its closing day and affected 160,000 homes in the area.

France's power producers have lifted clean energy output to six-year highs so far this year and generated around 95% of all the country's power supplies from clean energy sources - far exceeding clean power production in all other European nations.

Foul play is suspected in a massive power outage across the South of France on Saturday that has hit the final day of the Cannes Film Festival.