Museums, town halls, the Town Hall and the Saint-Jacques tower will be affected by this measure which will come into force on September 23.
The Hôtel de Ville de Paris, the Saint-Jacques tower, the municipal museums and the town halls of the arrondissement will cease to be lit at 10 p.m. from September 23 due to the energy crisis, the mayor of the capital announced on Tuesday. Anne Hidalgo. The elected socialist, who on the other hand refuses the end of street lighting for a reason “of security», will ask the State to «do the same thing“for national monuments, and to the owners of private monuments to take measures”to go in the same direction“.
Among the most imposing monuments of the capital, the Hôtel de Ville was so far lit until 1:00 a.m., like the Eiffel Tower which will now turn off when the last visitor leaves, i.e. 11:45 p.m., confirmed Anne Hidalgo. As for the bridges of the capital, the end of the ornamental illumination can be done if it is compatible with the imperatives of safety for river navigation, specified the assistant to the ecological transition Dan Lert.
The temperature of the buildings lowered by one degree
For his part, the first deputy to the Paris City Hall in charge of town planning, Emmanuel Grégoire, is pleased with “the thermal renovation of more than 58,000 social housing units» Parisians. “Since 2007, Paris has invested a lot of money for a just ecological transition“, he completes.
The temperature in the City’s buildings will be lowered by one degree during the day, from 19 to 18°C, “excluding nursing homes and crèches», and at 12°C in the evening and on weekends, i.e. «all periods when these buildings are unoccupied“, also announced Anne Hidalgo. The town hall wants to postpone the start of the heating of its buildings, both in the morning, “30 minutes“, and in time “to approach the winter period“, also announced the city councilor. This shift will be canceled in the event of very cold temperatures in November, she reassured.
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The temperature of the forty Parisian swimming pools will also be reduced by one degree, both “outside the water and in the pool“, she said. It is now set at 27°C for air and 26° in water. The objective of this “sobriety emergency plan” is of “further reduce consumption by 10%of the City, which is the equivalent of theenergy consumption of 226 schools“said the former socialist presidential candidate, stressing in his report that the majority on the left had since 2007 “invested one billion euros in energy efficiency stricto sensu“. These measures “make it possible to secure 80%of this objective and “to write off 10 million euros» the increase in energy prices, underlined Emmanuel Grégoire.
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