Does the time change really save energy?

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The timetable change came into effect in 1976 in France, two years after the first oil shock of 1974. PHILIPPE HUGUEN / STF / AFP

THE CHEKING PROCESS – If Thierry Breton supports this measure “during this period” of energy crisis, does it reduce electricity consumption?

Every year, it’s the same tune. This weekend, in the night from Saturday to Sunday, at three o’clock in the morning it was actually two o’clock. In addition to saving an hour of sleep, this time change would also save energy, as Thierry Breton recently said. The European commissioner for the internal market supported this device, however widely decried. “Everything that saves energy is good and therefore I support, in any case during this period, the fact that we must maintain this small effort that we must make“, he mentioned during the Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro on Sunday. But is this effort worth it?

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