Laura Laplaud 08:54, December 06, 2022, modified at 09:00, December 06, 2022
Agnès Verdier-Molinié, director of the iFRAP Foundation, author of "The true State of France" at the Éditions de l'Observatoire, was the guest of Europe Matin on Tuesday.
The circular sent to the prefects by the government to anticipate possible power cuts this winter is worrying.
Will the French be deprived of electricity for several hours a day?
Will the schools be open?
And what about public transport?
"We are in a very worrying situation. I read again last night the circular which was given to the prefects to plan the load shedding plans, it sends shivers down my spine!"
declared Agnès Verdier-Molinié, director of the iFRAP Foundation, guest of Europe Matin on Tuesday.
“We are not going to reopen the schools, we are not going to start the trains, the metros …”, she listed.
>> Find the 8:13 interview in replay and podcast here
The government reassures, like Secretary of State Marlène Schiappa, "there is no need for panic," she assured the microphone of Europe 1. If the rotating load shedding has place, these targeted cuts will last two consecutive hours maximum in portions of departments but these cuts are still only scenarios, she had tempered.
"The President of the Republic said 'don't panic' but he also said 'if there is a train on a route on which there is a risk of load shedding, we will not make it leave'. You believe that we are going to have a lot of trains at the time of the big peaks in consumption in the heart of the very cold winter?”, launched the director of the iFRAP Foundation at the microphone of Europe 1.
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