Several decrees come into force for more energy sobriety

Shops will no longer be able to turn on the air conditioning with the door open. The government will issue a decree in the coming days to ban this practice. A common sense measure, in the eyes of most customers and merchants. “When you’re driving and you have your air conditioning, you don’t drive with the window open. So when you’re in a store, you turn on the air conditioning, you close the door“, explains a customer of a store.

Others are more skeptical, like this primeur, which does not have automatic doors and will have to review the location of its display. “If we have to open and close for each customer, it will be a bit complicated for us.“, he worries. In Paris, as in other cities, the town hall had just banned this practice, seen as an ecological aberration. “It’s a phenomenal waste of energy, and in addition air conditioning has a major environmental impact.“says Dan Lert, deputy for Ecological Transition at the town hall of Paris. Another measure taken by decree, the illuminated signs must be extinguished at 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.