Energy crisis: France prepares for crisis winter and introduces electricity weather report
Created: 06/10/2022, 10:15 am
By: Martina Lippl
Energy crisis: France introduces electricity weather report before the crisis winter (symbolic photo).
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France is preparing for the crisis winter.
In addition to a weather report, there should now be an electricity weather report.
Paris – France wants to get through the winter without power and gas cuts.
A current weather report should help.
After the usual weather report and between other broadcasts, the current weather report should follow on television.
An information about the load on the electricity network in France with green, yellow and red symbols.
Electricity weather forecast in France against power supply shortages
The electricity weather report is part of the national energy-saving plan that the government will unveil this Thursday, Le Parisien
newspaper reported
.
The public television channel France Télévisions announces that it will make the French aware of energy-saving measures to avoid power outages this winter.
According to its own information, the station uses "écoWatt" - a website of the national network supplier RTE (Réseau de transport d'électricité) - for the electricity weather forecast.
The electricity utilization in France can be read off via “ecoWatt”.
In real time, users can see the power level available in the country from three color icons:
Green, orange or red?
Electricity weather report in France to protect against power outages
green - normal
orange - tense
red - very tense.
If it is red, consumer behavior should be changed.
Otherwise there is a risk of supply bottlenecks if consumption is not reduced.
Concerns about power outages: France is preparing for the crisis winter
If it is red, there is a risk of power outages.
This is intended to encourage viewers in France to reduce their consumption during the peak periods between 8am and 12pm and between 6pm and 8pm.
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For example, start the washing machine at 10 p.m. instead of 7 p.m., or turn on the oven at 7:45 p.m. instead of 7 p.m.
However, the television could continue to run, it was not necessary to switch it off.
It's not about "bringing France to a standstill", but "being careful when necessary," emphasizes RTE manager Xavier Piechaczyk, according to Sender Europe 1. Four out of five people in France are to be sensitized with the electricity weather report , so the hope.
Electricity weather in France against the energy crisis: French people can read the current weather on the “ecoWatt” website.
If it's green, everything is normal.
© Screenshot "ecoWatt"
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