The French government has announced its plans. in case of power cut lack of supply This winterwill affect some parts of the country on a rotating basis during peak consumption hours and which can affect up to 60% of the population.
The executive announced that it would send a circular to the governors (government delegates in the departments) to prepare the districts and determine how cuts would be made.
“We are not announcing that there will be cuts.“, government spokesman Olivier Véran reassured BFM television this Friday, however, “there may be situations of tension in the electricity supply.
Véran attributed the possibility of interruption to: evolution of meteorology: “If January is particularly cold, we can’t ignore the outages.”
These interruptions will last a maximum of two hours., government sources indicated, only during peak consumption hours (8am to 1pm and 6pm to 8pm). Also, they do not completely influence any department to spread their influence.
taking into account certain critical services and infrastructure will be protected 40% of the population will be safe as it shares priority power lines with these facilities (such as hospitals, fire or gendarmerie stations).
This assumes Outages can affect up to 60% of the population, but never all of a sudden.but it would be in some areas and none of them would suffer over and over again.
Affected areas will be given a day’s notice so they can be prepared.