“Light displays in stations and airports must be turned off,” announced Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate for Transport, this Sunday on France Inter.
Train stations and airports will eventually be affected by the restrictions on illuminated advertisements. This was announced by Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate in charge of Transport, this Sunday, on France Inter: “Illuminated displays in stations and airports must be turned off“.
Contacted by Le Figarothe Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion provided more details: “there will indeed be a decree which will oblige airports and stations to cut off illuminated advertisements when there is tension on the electrical system, when the Ecowatt is red“. Ecowatt is a kind ofelectricity weather“, available free of charge on a website, which allows the French in particular to know in real time the level of electricity consumption region by region. Each region is then associated with a color: green, yellow, orange or red. Red meaning that the electricity consumption in the region is “in a very tense situation», with a risk of cuts.
This announcement follows a meeting held on Tuesday, September 6, as part of the “energy sobrietybetween the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, and the main actors, managers and operators of the transport sector.
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A reversal of the situation since it was systematically stipulated that the decree, which will be ready by September 21, aimed at unifying the rules prohibiting illuminated advertisements between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m., did not concern airports and stations . Only illuminated advertisements located on certain outdoor station platforms are already subject to nocturnal bans. A second decree will therefore be necessary soon. It is not yet known when the decree will be published.
This effort required of stations and airports is part of the sobriety planenergy, announced by Emmanuel Macron in mid-July, the aim of which is to reduce our energy consumption by 10% compared to 2019, by 2024.