Olivier Véran nevertheless called “businesses and citizens” to “maintain efforts on eco -evil” because “our objective is that of energy sobriety”.
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The threat of power cuts this winter “seems to depart,” said government spokesman Olivier Véran on Wednesday, January 4, during the report of the Council of Ministers, the executive nevertheless calling them ” companies and citizens “to” maintain efforts on ecogestes “.
“The risk of cut this winter seems to depart, in particular due to a gradual recovery of the functioning of our nuclear power plants, but also because of the weather conditions, each could have seen, (and) because of The effort made by the State, businesses and all French people in terms of energy sobriety. It is therefore a rather reassuring news but which must not move us away from our objective which is that of energy sobriety. “
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Last week, the president of the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), Emmanuelle Wargon had already considered that the threat of power cuts moved away. The former Minister of Housing had explained this stay by the call to sobriety “really heard by the French”, with a 9 % drop in total consumption in the last four months in France.
The RTE network manager had also lowered, on December 20, the risk of tensions for the electrical network in January from “high” to “average”, given the efforts observed and the restart of several nuclear reactors.
During the Council of Ministers of Back to school, President Emmanuel Macron also invited the ministers “to daring and to be attentive to the concerns of all French people (…), when we reform, where We transform to meet everyday emergencies and upcoming emergencies for all French people, “said Véran.