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VIDEO. Fear of power cuts this winter: "We have a drawer full of candles"

2022-11-23T17:37:44.798Z


Are the French going to light up by candlelight again? This scenario is not impossible after the announcement of RTE, the network manager


Tuesday, 10 a.m., in a Carrefour hypermarket in Chambourcy (Yvelines), the candle aisle attracts the most cautious: “I try to buy candles to light me up when there are power cuts.

We take one or two at least,” explains Alain.

Today, he will complete his collection with a 25 cm high red candle.

For Laurence, who also surveys the department, it is above all an ecological approach: “we talk a lot about energy sobriety, she confides.

Often I turn off several lights or just leave one on.

Instead, I light a candle.

“Proof of this rush on these extra lights, in Carrefour stores in France, sales of candles – unscented – have been multiplied by 2.5 since the start of the school year.

For Carrefour's director of customer communication, Stephen Bompais, “the candle is an answer to not finding yourself in the dark this winter.

This year is different from past years because we are going through an energy crisis that affects everyone”.

Read alsoEnergy sobriety: slippers, door draft excluders… rush on “anti-cold” items

Candles are not the only products acclaimed by consumers.

The turnover of anti-cold items (auxiliary heating, duvet, hot water bottle) particularly jumped.

Particularly in the north of France, where temperatures are traditionally lower, but also in Île-de-France and Rhône-Alpes.

For this winter, there is a “high” risk of tensions on the national electricity grid in January.

This is what the operator of the French electricity transmission network RTE estimates in its latest report published last Friday.

The main reason ?

Restarting shutdown EDF nuclear reactors, slower than expected.

Source: leparis

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