The French Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (“Electricity Transmission Network” (RTE)) has floated out the possibility, that, in a worst case scenario situation, the nation would have to manually cut the power to resident’s homes for a few hours during upcoming winter months.
Thomas Veyrenc, executive director of RTE, eplained to French outlet Good Morning Business yesterday, about the three main factors contributing to France’s energy crunch:
We are in an energy crisis with three main parameters. First of all, there is the gas crisis, a European crisis that predates the invasion of Ukraine: we were already at Christmas commenting on the evolution of gas price. This is important because many European countries produce electricity from gas and it is also important for all gas consumers.
There is a second tranche: a nuclear production crisis. Today, the fleet is operating at half power. It is normal for there to be reactors shut down, from summer to autumn , it’s unusual that there are so many. So the question is what nuclear production will be for the winter? And that is a particularly French crisis.
And then there is still the drought, with multiple repercussions, including on the production of hydraulic electricity, our second source of electricity production. We do not talk about it a lot, but when we combine these elements it is natural that we arrive in a situation where the risk is increased.
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Currently RTE says they are monitoring the situations and will continue to do so going into fall and winter.
Électricité de France (Electricity of France) has already alluded to refiring a nuclear power plant to offset the energy shortages. The WinePress has reported that Germany has already done something similar: “Germany To Reconnect A Coal Powerplant Amidst Energy Crunch, Stymieing Climate Goals”
Thomas Veyrenc of EDF also has “three major parameters” they are examining and anticipating for.
The nuclear fleet, where will we be? We have done our analyses, we are cautious, but if we ever manage to put everything back into service, the situation will necessarily be easier.
[Referring to electricity exchanges in Europe:] The more the trading system and Community law work, the more solidarity we have with each other in gas and electricity, the better it will be.
Consumption, we were cautious, we considered that it was like today. Because of the sobriety plan or the price increase, that could bring it down.
But all of this is contingent upon the severity of this winter, he says:
If the winter is mild, you won’t hear about RTE. […] If we are in a median situation, the number of days where we would ask for specific actions, it will be between 0 and 5. There where we will ask for voluntary reductions in consumption, first of all from the companies with which we are currently signing partnerships.
The “most improbable situations” are much anticipated by RTE:
In the worst case, which confronts a brutal hypothesis on European exchanges […], to which would be added a very cold winter, which we have not known for more than 10 years, we could go up to 30 days that are reported. It’s the worst case scenario, it’s really very unlikely, but it does exist.
[The] reported days correspond to days of tension on the energy market or on the electrical system.
France’s BFM Business concludes with noting, ‘The blackout, “the loss of complete control of the system”, is however excluded by RTE.’
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Will this happen, will it not happen? Can’t say. But, if I were you, I would take preemptive measures – the best that you can, whatever that entails – assuming the worst just might happen, seeing as all of Europe is being plunged into darkness and freezing over per these restrictions.
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Again, the Lord is judging Europe for its wickedness and hatred of God’s word, and most will not fare well in the years to come.
[18] Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. [19] And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? [20] To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. [21] And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. [22] And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.Isaiah 8:18-22
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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