“My God* ! France is heading towards a blackout this winter.” The headline of the American newspaper Bloomberg is scary. The possibility of power cuts in France was already widely discussed by the foreign press. She just made herself clear. “There is now no longer any doubt: the French reactors will not be able to cover the entire electricity demand during the cold nights of December and January”, insists the media.
EDF, “which owns the largest nuclear fleet in the world”, as it recalls The Wall Street Journal, announced on the evening of Thursday November 3 that its electricity production would be lower than expected. Without more details on the real risk of cut. The conjectures mainly relate to the weather, now a big unknown in the equation. “For now, mild temperatures are benefiting Europe by driving down energy demand,” writes the American daily. France indeed experienced the month of October