The Prime Minister also invited the French, individuals and businesses, to reduce their consumption of gas and electricity, while certain nuclear reactors producing the latter have been shut down.
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, said on Tuesday on the TMC channel that any gas cuts, in the event of a shortage, would not concern individuals. The cuts, they do not concern households (…), we are not going to cut off the gas in French households, but it is [chez] our businesses, the big consumers, that there could be cuts, she said in the Quotidien program. For avoid cutsshe again invited the French, individuals and businesses, to reduce their consumption of gas and electricity, while certain nuclear reactors that produce the latter have been shut down.
Everything we can do to lower our consumption will prevent us from getting into situations where we should have cuts, explained Elisabeth Borne. These could arise if all the wrong assumptions come together: if Russia cuts its supplies, if ever there are tensions over LNG [gaz naturel liqufi] and that the orders we have placed are not honored if there is a very cold winter, she listed.
The regulated gas sales tariffs remain frozen on September 1, 2022, their level of October 1, 2021. Good news for households: they escape a further average increase of 26.80% including tax. In total, without the shield put in place by the government, the average level of regulated sales prices on September 1, 2022 would have been 116.50% higher excluding tax, i.e. 105.10% including tax than it is currently.
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Monday, before the bosses gathered by the Medef for his return, Elisabeth Borne had urged companies to energy sobriety, asking them to do their part to reduce energy consumption this winter, but without announcing binding measures.
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