The world of culture is in turn working to deal with the energy crisis.
After the Eiffel Tower, it is the Louvre and Versailles which will bring forward the extinction of their lighting, a “symbolic” measure to raise awareness of the situation, said this Saturday the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak on France 2.
"As of this (Saturday) evening", the Pyramid of the Louvre will be extinguished at 11 p.m. instead of 1 a.m., said the minister, in the wake of similar measures taken by the city of Paris which decided this week to dive earlier in the dark the Eiffel Tower and the Hôtel de Ville.
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"We are also going to turn off the facade of the Palace of Versailles at 10 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. next week," she added.
"Symbols are important to raise awareness," she said, adding that "these symbolic measures" were not enough.
Change of light bulbs, projectors, boilers...
She called for more concrete measures for the ecological transition in museums, cinemas, theaters and “all cultural places in France”.
The Musée d'Orsay, for example, “reduced its energy consumption by a third just by changing the bulbs and switching to LEDs.
We try to do this in all the museums.
Changing boilers, replacing them with heat pumps etc.
“, argued the minister.
With cinemas, “we are discussing the replacement of their projectors”.
“If they switch to laser projectors, they can reduce their energy consumption by seven,” Rima Abdul Malak pointed out.
The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced this week measures such as the reduction of ornamental lighting or the temperatures of buildings and swimming pools which should make it possible to reduce energy consumption in the capital by 10%, i.e. "the objective requested on a national level ".
Energy prices have exploded in recent months, against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in many countries, individuals, companies or public bodies are seeking to reduce their consumption.