The Hôtel de Ville de Paris, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the municipal museums and the town halls of the arrondissement will cease to be lit at 10:00 p.m. from September 23 due to the energy crisis. the mayor of the capital Anne Hidalgo announced on Tuesday.
The Eiffel Tower will be no exception to the rule: currently illuminated until 1:00 a.m., it will now be off at 11:45 p.m., the time of departure of the last visitor.
Night illumination represents 4% of the monument’s annual consumption, confirmed the Société d’exploitation de la tour Eiffel (SETE). “It is an eminently symbolic gesture to participate in the awareness of the energy sobriety that we must demonstrate”declared Jean-François Martins, the president of the SETE.
Street lighting maintained
The mayor of Paris, who on the other hand refuses the end of street lighting for a reason “of security”will ask the State to turn off the lights of its national monuments, and the owners of private monuments to take measures “to go in the same direction”.
As for the bridges of the capital, the end of the ornamental illumination can be done if it is compatible with the imperatives of safety for river navigation, specified the assistant to the ecological transition Dan Lert.
One degree less in the city’s public buildings
The temperature in schools, sports complexes and other municipal buildings will be lowered by one degree during the day, from 19 to 18°C, “excluding nursing homes and crèches”and at 12°C in the evening and at weekends, i.e. “all periods when these buildings are unoccupied”Ms. Hidalgo also announced.
The town hall wants to delay the start of the heating of its buildings, both in the morning, “30 minutes”and as late as possible in the season “to approach the winter period”, also announced the aedile. This shift will be canceled in the event of very cold temperatures in November, she reassured.
The temperature of the forty Parisian swimming pools will also be reduced by one degree at a time “outside the water and in the pool“, she said. It is currently set at 27°C for the air and 26° in the water and will therefore increase to 26° above the water and 25° in the basin.
The goal of this “Emergency Sobriety Plan” is to “reduce consumption by another 10%” of the City, the equivalent of the “energy consumption of 226 schools”, said the former socialist presidential candidate, stressing in his report that the majority on the left had since 2007 “invested one billion euros in energy efficiency stricto sensu”.
These measures “make it possible to secure 80%” of this objective” and “to amortize 10 million euros” the increase in energy prices, underlined his first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire.