Margaux Fodéré, edited by Romain Rouillard 8:01 p.m., November 29, 2022
The government has drawn up a load shedding plan in the event of tensions on the electricity network this winter.
Power cuts will then be orchestrated by RTE and will last approximately two hours during peak consumption.
A solution that will nevertheless act as a last resort.
The winter of 2023 could be accompanied by some tension on the electricity network, a direct consequence of the shutdown of several nuclear reactors for malfunction or maintenance.
A hypothesis that Olivier Véran, the government spokesperson, did not rule out.
"It could be that this year, and I watch here for the use of the conditional, the production and the demand for electricity are not completely aligned on certain very cold days," he said on Tuesday.
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In the event of a red alert on the network, the government has drawn up a load shedding plan.
Concretely, power cuts may be triggered on working days during peak consumption, between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. and between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
These cuts will last approximately two hours and will affect different areas in the departments in turn.
No priority classified infrastructure, in particular hospitals, will be affected.
A solution adopted as a last resort
On the other hand, the government warns that transport or the telephone network will not be spared.
It will be almost impossible to reach the emergency services in the event of a cut, as Europe 1 revealed last week.
Only 112, the only emergency number that uses all the antennas of the network, could be preserved.
The load shedding option will nevertheless be a solution of last resort.
The government rather favors pedagogy through the gestures of energy sobriety requested from individuals and businesses.