The industrialists, for their part, presented their proposals to the Government on Wednesday to make energy savings, “reasonable and proportionate” measures that affect the “kWh consumed without public service” and not their production process, the Minister of Energy said on Wednesday. Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
“In the context of the war in Ukraine, this plan aims to allow us to be the best prepared to return to winter,” said the minister after a meeting with the industrial federations and the minister in charge of the sector Roland Lescure.
Close to a dozen meetings with different business sectors
After the call launched at the end of August by the President of the Government to save energy, there have already been eight meetings of the same type with representatives of the administration, commerce, transport and sports.
“We know that the extremely strong rise in prices is already reflected in certain sectors with an impact on activity,” said Roland Lescure, citing the case of glassmakers. The Arc glass group, for example, placed some of its employees on partial unemployment last week.
A “temperature police”?
Agnès Pannier-Runacher estimated that “great savings” were possible by hunting “waste” in activities not directly related to the production process.
But according to Roland Lescure, questioned about an article in Le Canard enchaîné that evoked a “temperature police”, “we will not put an agent behind every thermostat”.
Le Canard enchaîné stated this Wednesday that the Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire and the Delegate Minister for Industry had proposed during last Friday’s Energy Defense Council the creation of a “temperature police”, through which an official would control the temperature in companies “No, we did not propose setting up a temperature police”, swept Roland Lescure.
Source: BFM TV
