Gas consumption has fallen 10.5% since August 1 in weather-corrected data in France, according to the first weekly winter dashboard published on Wednesday by gas transportation manager GRTgaz.
This decrease is a consequence of both the lower gas consumption of the large manufacturers (-22.1%) and the decrease in the consumption of customers connected to the distribution networks (-14.1%). However, these figures are compared with a significant increase (+43.5%) in the consumption of gas power plants “highly in demand to compensate for the lack of availability of the nuclear fleet”, underlines GRTgaz in a press release.
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