“We unfortunately have to prepare for it,” added the Prime Minister before the bosses gathered by the Medef. She called on businesses to establish their own “sobriety plan” in September.
Le Monde with AFP
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne invited businesses on Monday, August 29, before the Medef, to establish energy “sober” plans “, consisting in reducing consumption by 10 %, in order to prevent the government from the government ‘Impose “consumer cuts”.
“Each company must mobilize and act. I therefore each call to establish, in September, its own sobriety plan,” said the Prime Minister in front of bosses, giving them “appointment in early October” for Take a “first assessment” of these energy savings plans.
Businesses “would be the first affected” in the event of “rationing” in the face of a risk of shortage, thus warned M me bound, believing that “we unfortunately have to prepare ourselves”. In a speech advocating sobriety, the Prime Minister said that the government was working on the track of a “market to exchange rights”, and envisaged possible “adapted support measures” for certain companies.
Faced with climatic disruption and the outbreak of energy prices, the government’s heading has also called for “collective responsibility” in terms of energy savings because “we have to act faster and more strong “. “The time is no longer for half-measures, the time is no longer for everyone for themselves, the time is for collective responsibility,” she said, inviting State, companies and individuals to ” Prefer the chosen savings rather than the cuts suffered “.