This winter, the executive hammered to the French that it was necessary to show “energy sobriety”, in a context of global warming. This declaration seems to have borne fruit since they “have reduced their energy consumption by 11% for the month of June”, announced this Thursday morning on France 2 the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher. This figure concerns both electricity consumption and gas consumption.
“I really want to thank the French,” she said in her interview. According to the government, “large companies” and “administrations” also played the game. Thanks to this reduction in energy consumption, “we reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 4% for the first quarter. of this year”. Note that this is, for the time being, “a provisional estimate”. The Minister also specified that these 4% represent “the level of reduction that we will have to maintain in the years to come to meet our climate objectives”.
New work will also be started in the coming weeks. A consultation will notably be launched on “the question of energy control”. It will be established by Agnès Pannier-Runacher and Bérangère Couillard, Minister for the Ecological Transition. Two questions will then be asked to the French from “mid-July” to “mid-September” to find out “their opinion on public lighting and on the lighting of shop windows”. The conclusions will then be announced “a few weeks later”.
