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Electricity: France is preparing for a tense winter, against a background of coronavirus

2020-09-18T19:35:03.589Z


The availability of nuclear power plants will remain very low, according to RTE. The Fessenheim judgment does not help.


Nuclear power plants under maintenance, Fessenheim closed, coronavirus epidemic ... France is preparing to face a complicated winter on the electricity grid front.

The cold season

"remains under special vigilance",

with

"a high probability of situations of strain on the balance between supply and demand for electricity"

, warns the manager of the high voltage network RTE, in a new analysis of the security of electricity supply released Friday.

"The evolution of the health situation still induces a high degree of uncertainty about these data which will be updated in mid-November"

, he warns.

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RTE believes that the risk that it will have to take exceptional measures to avoid a national or regional blackout will be

“much higher than the norm”

.

In particular,

"the use of targeted household load shedding

(for example voltage drops or cuts, Editor's note)

cannot be excluded in the case"

of very low temperatures.

These interruptibility measurements have never been

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Source: lefigaro

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