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In other news France faces power cuts and electricity rationing as shortage threatens [1] (despite announcing the contrary last June). [1] https://www.express.

In other news France faces power cuts and electricity rationing as shortage threatens [1] (despite announcing the contrary last June). [1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1362163/france-electricity-shortage-blackout-RTE https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1362163/france-electric...

paulez 6y ago
No power cut so far https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/la-consommation-delectricite-en-france# https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/la-consommation-delectric... It might happen if the temperature drops below average for several days, we're not there yet.
patd 6y ago
Isn't it mostly due to the fact that half of France France warms itself using electricity ?
- eloisant 6y ago
  No, the majority of French households are using gaz. The reason France faces power cuts could be because they recently shut down a nuclear powerplant (which is a non-sense considering nuclear doesn't emit any CO2 and we'll have to buy coal electricity from Germany instead...)
  - tannhaeuser 6y ago
    What? In Germany, they tell us we have to buy evil nuclear power from France ;) And the rise in EV sales is because they're being subsidized left and right, including installation of wall boxes with 900 EUR. It's antisocial, though, because you've got to own a house in the first place. And so is the ongoing exodus of producing small cars in most of EU's car industry because of draconian Euro 7 emission requirements impossible to meet at a reasonable price point; ie. the enormous cost of maintaining roads being financed via taxes are only benefitting those who'll be able to afford long-distance EVs and undesired (from CO2 PoV) e-commerce/road logistics.
_visgean 6y ago
afaik were this to happen France would just import electricity from other countries like it does every day? https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electricity-trading https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electrici...
rorykoehler 6y ago
I'd take it with a pinch of salt if it's in the Express. Doesn't even make good toilet paper.
Lio 6y ago
I’d take anything in the Express with a pinch of salt. Their readership loves stories about issues in the EU regardless of truth. A quick look at their Wikipedia entry will give anyone that doesn’t know them an idea of their institutional xenophobia[1]. Disclaimer: obviously I’m an EU “Remainer/Rejoiner” so you judge my opinion of the Express by that. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Express https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Express
- conradfr 6y ago
  Sorry about that I didn't know about its reputation, I took the first link in English Google gave me, but the basic fact comes from an official statement anyway.
  - Lio 6y ago
    No problem at all. Sadly we have quite a few of these style of tabloids in the UK. Many of the negative, highly polarising affects of social media that people complain about today have been visible in certain segments of the UK press since the Westminster Gazette invented the term in 1901...IMHO. :(

paulez 6y ago

No power cut so far https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/la-consommation-delectricite-en-france# https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/la-consommation-delectric... It might happen if the temperature drops below average for several days, we're not there yet.

patd 6y ago

Isn't it mostly due to the fact that half of France France warms itself using electricity ?

eloisant 6y ago
No, the majority of French households are using gaz. The reason France faces power cuts could be because they recently shut down a nuclear powerplant (which is a non-sense considering nuclear doesn't emit any CO2 and we'll have to buy coal electricity from Germany instead...)
- tannhaeuser 6y ago
  What? In Germany, they tell us we have to buy evil nuclear power from France ;) And the rise in EV sales is because they're being subsidized left and right, including installation of wall boxes with 900 EUR. It's antisocial, though, because you've got to own a house in the first place. And so is the ongoing exodus of producing small cars in most of EU's car industry because of draconian Euro 7 emission requirements impossible to meet at a reasonable price point; ie. the enormous cost of maintaining roads being financed via taxes are only benefitting those who'll be able to afford long-distance EVs and undesired (from CO2 PoV) e-commerce/road logistics.

_visgean 6y ago

afaik were this to happen France would just import electricity from other countries like it does every day? https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electricity-trading https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electrici...

rorykoehler 6y ago

I'd take it with a pinch of salt if it's in the Express. Doesn't even make good toilet paper.

Lio 6y ago

I’d take anything in the Express with a pinch of salt. Their readership loves stories about issues in the EU regardless of truth. A quick look at their Wikipedia entry will give anyone that doesn’t know them an idea of their institutional xenophobia[1]. Disclaimer: obviously I’m an EU “Remainer/Rejoiner” so you judge my opinion of the Express by that. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Express https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Express

conradfr 6y ago
Sorry about that I didn't know about its reputation, I took the first link in English Google gave me, but the basic fact comes from an official statement anyway.
- Lio 6y ago
  No problem at all. Sadly we have quite a few of these style of tabloids in the UK. Many of the negative, highly polarising affects of social media that people complain about today have been visible in certain segments of the UK press since the Westminster Gazette invented the term in 1901...IMHO. :(