France is getting a little deeper into an unprecedented energy crisis day by day. Ukraine’s war has sent energy prices soaring on international markets, while a summer drought is crippling already desperate power generation capacity. For many, the risk of power outages from time to time in winter cannot be ruled out.
Faced with these dangers, the French territories are not in an equal position. There are large differences in per capita electricity consumption at the municipal level. A complex phenomenon that has many causes.
We consume more electricity in the south-east of France
Contrary to what intuition might suggest, it is in the Southeast that household electricity consumption is highest. In Saint-Raphaël (Var), the resident thus consumes 4.2 MWh per year, which is practically twice the national average. For comparison, Stéphanois is about 1.3 MWh. Amazing numbers as the temperature difference…
Source: Le Figaro
