Rising energy prices: how Strasbourg is preparing for winter

His vast office in the Strasbourg town hall will remain closed, with the heating cut off, this winter. The EELV mayor, Jeanne Barseghian, decided that she would not go there to avoid unnecessarily heating a very poorly insulated space, high ceiling, rarely occupied. “We have no choice because the listed historic building cannot be properly insulated,” said Syamak Agha-Babaei, the first deputy and vice-president for budget and finance. The mayor will go to work in the more modern administrative centre. The price of energy will remain very high in the years to come: we must slow down our mode of consumption. “For months now, the city and the metropolis of the Bas-Rhin (more than 500,000 inhabitants) have been organizing to limit the soaring – in any case inevitable – of the bill.