PARIS, Oct 13 (NNN-Xinhua) — Paris city council on Wednesday voted to pass the initiative to switch off digital advertising screens earlier in public spaces to save energy amid the energy crisis.
The initiative was presented by the French Green Party at the city council.
“There are approximately 9,000 digital advertising screens in France, and it is estimated that 3,000 of them are in the windows of Paris,” Fatoumata Kone, the president of the Green Party told the city council.
From Sept. 23, Paris already started to turn off earlier lighting at its places of interest, including the Eiffel Tower and Paris City Hall, in a bid to save energy.
Meanwhile, France’s President Emmanuel Macron called on the nation to withstand the different crises that France, Europe and the whole world are going through.
Speaking to French daily news France 2 in an interview entitled “The World in Crises,” Macron said the country’s goal is to restart building nuclear reactors in order to have 45 nuclear reactors in operation by January 2023, compared to 30 out of 56 operational today.
He said the country will turn from coal to nuclear and renewable energies, in an effort to tackle climate change.
Macron named three “axis” to face crises: reducing energy consumption, producing more nuclear energy and developing renewable energies.
Speaking of the fuel shortages across France due to strikes at refineries, Macron promised the situation of service stations will return to normal in the coming week. — NNN-XINHUA
