A fine example of the tongue-in-cheek language of an EdF director about the saturation of the EdF network during the cold snap of January 2009 Interview conducted during the 13h newscast of France2 the 6 January 2009.
France has fewer and fewer heavy industries that consume large amounts of energy, but the RTE / EDF network frequently records peaks in consumption. The main people responsible (convectors, heat pumps, reversible air conditioners, etc.) for this situation are obviously not mentioned during the following interview ...
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