The threat of power cuts this winter “seems to move away”declared Wednesday, January 4, government spokesman Olivier Véran, during the report of the Council of Ministers, the executive nevertheless calling on the “businesses and citizens” to “maintain efforts on eco-gestures”.
“The risk of a cut this winter seems to be receding, in particular due to a gradual resumption of operation of our nuclear power plants, but also due to the weather conditions, everyone will have been able to see this, (and) due to the effort achieved by the State, companies and all French people in terms of energy sobriety. This is therefore rather reassuring news, but which should not take us away from our objective, which is that of energy sobriety. »
The president calls on the government “to be bold”
Last week, the president of the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), Emmanuelle Wargon, had already estimated that the threat of power cuts was receding. The former housing minister explained this reprieve by calling for sobriety “really heard by the French”with a 9% drop in total consumption over the last four months in France.
The network operator RTE had also lowered, on December 20, the risk of tensions for the electricity network in January by” raised “ to ” average “given the efforts observed and the restart of several nuclear reactors.
During the back-to-school Council of Ministers, President Emmanuel Macron also invited the ministers “to be bold and to remain attentive to the concerns of all French people (…)at a time when we are reforming, when we are transforming, in order to be able to respond to day-to-day emergencies and future emergencies for all French people”said Mr. Véran.