E.Leclerc supermarkets will also have their sobriety plan. Given the tense situation announced for the winter, the Government insists on its objective of reducing the energy consumption of companies by 10%. Guest this Wednesday morning on BFMTV-RMC, Michel-Edouard Leclerc assured that the E.Leclerc stores would achieve this goal. According to him, a sobriety plan, implemented “now”, will concern in particular the heating and lighting of supermarkets.
“We are not going to wait for it to get dark earlier to turn off the lights”, declared Michel-Edouard Leclerc, emphasizing, however, that “in most E.Leclerc centres, when the lights depend on them, they are [déjà] it turns off when the customers have left.” But, in some shopping centers, “we are not the ones who make the rules for all the sixty or eighty merchants” who occupy the premises, he clarifies.
-30% for lighting
The sobriety plan points to a 30% reduction in lighting, but there are “modern” and “newer” stores that have dimmers, and for which “it is quite easy to do”, but there are others for which “it is more complicated,” said Michel-Edouard Leclerc, taking as an example the extinction of “one out of every two lamps”. As for heating, a “big expense” for supermarkets, the goal is to reduce it by one degree Celsius.
In addition to heating and lighting, stores will also have to tackle internal production, such as bakery, restaurant or kitchen services, “which consume a lot”, adds Michel-Edouard Leclerc. “There is work to be done,” he said. “We will be informed of the peaks [de consommation] electricity”, which “will allow us, for example, between 8:00 and 12:00, to better stage and plan productions”.
Source: BFM TV
