PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones) – The high-voltage network manager RTE on Thursday increased its level of vigilance on electricity supply for the month of January 2022 and indicated that it was preparing to operate the system in a degraded situation.
The diagnosis carried out by RTE shows that recourse to “post-market” means (interruption of large industrial consumers, drop in voltage on the distribution networks) would be probable in the event of a cold snap or very weak situation. wind production on the European plate, and almost certain if these two factors combine.
“As a last resort, resorting to targeted consumer cuts remains a solution that RTE will potentially have to resort to in the event of difficult weather conditions or further degradation of production capacities, particularly nuclear,” RTE said in a press release.
“However, these are in no way a matter of ‘blackout’ situations involving a general loss of electricity supply in the territory, but of an operation controlled by RTE and implemented by the distributors in connection with the territorial administration. of the State, which has a localized and limited impact in time, sparing sensitive consumers “, however warned the network manager.
-Dimitri Delmond, Agefi-Dow Jones; +33 (0) 1 41 27 47 31; [email protected] ed: VLV
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December 30, 2021 05:49 ET (10:49 GMT)