While energy expenditure could reach €12 million next year at the City of Nancy – i.e. four times more than in 2021 – an energy sobriety plan was presented this Monday to the city council. Objective: a 10% reduction in energy consumption.
In this plan, there is no question of closing equipment. The measures relate to heating and lighting.
Thus, in the 400 buildings that the City has, the heating will be lowered by one degree this winter. The thermostat will be set to 19° in offices, museums, performance halls, libraries and elementary schools. Nursery schools, they will go to 20° instead of 21. Gymnasiums, from 17 to 15°. On the other hand, the heating will be maintained as it is in the crèches and nursing homes, i.e. 21° and 22° respectively.
More illumination of historic buildings
Public lighting will decrease in intensity between midnight and 5 a.m.: it was already reduced by 50%, it will decrease by 70%. As for the historic buildings, they will no longer be illuminated at night from October 15, with the exception of Place Stanislas which contributes to public lighting.
The feasts of Saint Nicholas will also contribute to this sobriety plan: there will no longer be two screenings of the video-mapping show at Place Stanislas, but only one. The illuminations will be removed in the morning between 5:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. As for the ice rink in front of the station, it will no longer be ice but synthetic.
This plan, which did not give rise to a vote, will not however be sufficient to absorb the additional cost of the invoices. Mayor Mathieu Klein will therefore ask Elisabeth Borne the application of the tariff shield to towns the size of Nancy. With other mayors and presidents of metropolitan France, he is meeting the Prime Minister this Tuesday morning during a working meeting as part of France Urbaine.