• The town hall of Paris announced on Tuesday its energy sobriety plan, which includes lowering temperatures in the public buildings it manages as well as the water in swimming pools.

  • Aid for energy renovation for private housing is multiplied by three, but will not make it possible to reach the figure of 40,000 private dwellings renovated per year set by France's National Low Carbon Strategy.

  • These savings should make it possible to reduce the energy consumption of the city of Paris by 10%, i.e. the equivalent of operating 226 schools, while the city's bills have risen by 110% for electricity and 34% for gas, leading to an anticipated additional cost of 35 million per year.

You won't have to drag in the water.

Soon, in Paris, the swimming pools will be less heated, by about one degree.

And the so-called ornamental lighting, that of public buildings or monuments, will go out at 10 p.m.

These are some of the measures announced this Tuesday at a press conference by the town hall of Paris, which, like all cities, is facing a double crisis: the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis, which is imposing energy savings. 'energy.

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has also insisted on this idea, highlighting the 10 billion euros that have been invested in ecological transition since 2014: "It is not because we are facing a rise in energy prices that we must act, we must allow ourselves to be in a more resilient model.

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18 degrees during the day

Concretely, the water in the swimming pools is currently heated to 26 degrees, while the outside air is at 27 degrees.

Everything will be lowered by one degree.

When ?

"As soon as possible," replied Anne Hidalgo, who will no doubt have to face the revolt of users, who had expressed their discomfort in 2016 when the town hall had already tried to lower these temperatures.

Public buildings are heated to 19 degrees on average, except nursing homes and nurseries.

The temperature will drop to 18 degrees during the day, announces the mayor, and to 12 degrees at night and on weekends.

The heating season, which normally starts in October, will also be delayed as much as possible, “by about a month”, announces the mayor, if the weather allows it.

Finally, with regard to public lighting, the mayor does not want it to stop at night for security reasons, but she wants to act on ornamental lighting, which will have to disappear at 10 p.m. from September 23.

The Eiffel Tower will symbolically turn off a little earlier, at 11:45 p.m., when the last visitor leaves the building.

286 million euros must be invested by 2026 to reduce consumption by 60% in 2030.

Aid for private housing multiplied by three

These savings should make it possible to reduce the city's energy consumption by 10%, the equivalent of operating 226 schools, while the city's bills have risen by 110% for electricity and 34% for gas. , leading to an anticipated additional cost of 35 million per year.

The town hall, fortunately for the Parisians, did not choose an energy contract with fluctuating prices, which would mechanically have increased the bills even more.

But in one of the most energy-consuming areas in Paris, private housing, the efforts do not seem commensurate with the challenges.

Currently, only 2,000 private homes are renovated per year, while 40,000 are needed, according to France's National Low Carbon Strategy.

Emissions from built heritage are the major part of greenhouse gas emissions.

The deputy in charge of ecological transition, Dan Lert, announces that this aid will be multiplied by three, but the result will remain, even with this increase, well below national objectives.



Responding to a question from

20 Minutes

, the town hall announces that it has only obtained 30 million euros from the State during the post-Covid-19 recovery plan.

“When I present these figures to the European Commissioners I meet, I get an embarrassed smile.

We cannot act alone.

We need the support of the State”, indicates Anne Hidalgo, who would like the investment in the energy transition to be counted on a separate budget, which would not increase the debt.

Anne Hidalgo also stressed that the abolition of the contribution on the added value of companies would "remove room for maneuver" for local authorities.

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  • Anne Hidalgo

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