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No power outage in December, according to RTE

2022-12-08T07:46:01.881Z


Risks of targeted power cuts persist for the month of January 2023. Demining operation for the operating director of RTE, the manager of the electricity network. Will there be power cuts in France? "Before the end of the year, no" , wanted to reassure Jean-Paul Roubin on Wednesday evening on BFMTV in the face of the concern aroused by possible large-scale power cuts this winter. " For the beginning of next year, we must not panic ," he added, without however expli


Demining operation for the operating director of RTE, the manager of the electricity network.

Will there be power cuts in France?

"Before the end of the year, no"

, wanted to reassure Jean-Paul Roubin on Wednesday evening on BFMTV in the face of the concern aroused by possible large-scale power cuts this winter.

"

For the beginning of next year, we must not panic

," he added, without however explicitly saying that there would be no load shedding after January 1.

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The statement from the RTE executive follows a communication from the group at the end of October.

Already at the time, the network manager predicted that cuts, if they were to take place, would be limited.

RTE declared to expect less than five “

red

” alerts on its Ecowatt device which reports three days before the state of tension on the electricity network.

The color red means that the electrical system is in high tension and that

"it is not excluded that we make load shedding unless we all take ourselves in hand"

, according to the chairman of the executive board of RTE Xavier Piechaczyk.

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However, the former executive director of EDF Hervé Machenaud affirmed Thursday morning on RFI that “

cuts (were going) to take place this winter

”, that there would be “

necessarily

”, recalling that “

the problem of electricity , is that it cannot be stored

" whereas "

we must meet the demand (for electricity) when it occurs

".

If “individual or collective efforts” have “a positive effect”, Hervé Machenaud wondered at the microphone of RFI: “

How far will you have to go if it is very cold?

No longer warming up?

".

A circular sent by the government to the prefects has been raising concerns for a few days.

The document anticipates possible power cuts in the event of extreme cold this winter and dictates the procedure to be followed.

In this context, the executive has been trying for several days to reassure.

Starting with Emmanuel Macron himself who declared at the beginning of the week: "

We are a great country, we have a great energy model, we will hold out this winter

".

Source: lefigaro

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