It will be necessary to make “small additional gestures” to reduce electricity consumption.
But power cuts are not "inevitable" this winter, said Olivier Véran, the government spokesperson, on France 2 on Tuesday. "We have the full capacity collectively to avoid any risk of cuts, whatever be the winter conditions,” said Olivier Véran.
"Principle number one is that nothing is inevitable."
“Collectively, we have started to reduce our electricity consumption”, he added, calling for “collectively a small additional gesture” in order to “be able to avoid the worst”.
Reduce consumption by 10%
The government, which anticipates "all scenarios" in a measure of "prediction" in the event of a power shortage, sent a circular on November 30 to the prefects so that they prepare their departments for "targeted power cuts and scheduled,” according to the document.
President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday invited the French not to "panic" in the face of the risk of power cuts, even judging that they could be avoided if consumption were reduced by 10%.
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