Lights on the Eiffel Tower will soon be turned off more than an hour earlier at night to save electricity, the Paris mayor announced Tuesday, as Russia’s war in Ukraine deepens an energy crisis in Europe.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the iconic tower that is normally illuminated until 1 a.m. is only one of the city’s monuments and municipal buildings that will be plunged into darkness earlier in the evening as the French capital — like the rest of France and Europe — faces risks of power shortages, rationing, and blackouts when energy demand surges this winter. [bold, links added]
Russia has reduced natural gas supplies to several European countries as they support Ukraine, sending prices for gas and electricity surging.
It’s fueled inflation and raised fears about shrinking supplies as the heating season draws near, forcing countries to enact conservation measures and relief for consumers and businesses.
While some European companies have reduced or halted production as energy prices surge, the European Union is looking to pass proposals to ease the crisis.
Lights on the Eiffel Tower will be turned off after the last visitor leaves at 11:45 p.m., starting Sept. 23, Hidalgo said. Other landmarks operated by the city, such as Saint-Jacques tower and City Hall, will be turned off at 10 p.m.
“It’s a symbolic but an important step,” Hidalgo said, brushing off criticism that Paris authorities could do more to reduce energy consumption by 10% — the target set in July by President Emmanuel Macron as part of a nationwide “sobriety plan” to conserve energy.
For safety reasons, streetlights will stay on across Paris and the ornate bridges over the Seine River also will remain illuminated at night, Hidalgo told reporters.
To align with France’s savings plan, she said she will press the government to adjust the lighting on national monuments in Paris, such as the domed Pantheon and the Arc de Triomphe, the famous Napoleonic arch that dominates the Champs-Elysees Avenue.
Paris authorities also aim to save energy by moving back when they turn on the heat in public buildings by a whole month, from mid-October to mid-November.
They also plan to lower the temperature in public buildings by one degree, from 19 to 18 degrees Celsius (66 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit) during office hours, and to 16 C after hours and on weekends.
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one solution to lighting up la Tour d’Eiffel at night is to clad the entire outside of the tower with PV panels, to collect sunshine in the day, whilst filling up the interior of the legs of the tower with millions of batteries to store the collected sunshine for the night. Sure, it will become a gleaming black tower, but that’s so appropriate for the times, non?
The Eiffel Tower is an anochrism, famous only for being famous. It could use a face lift. I doubt that the French would use your idea, only because they didn’t think of it.
Paris gose from the CITY OF LIGHTS TO THE CITY OF ECO-stupidity all over a a fake threat
The Eiffel Tower
must succumb to this idiocy?
Why shouldn’t the
Global Warming LIE?
Has anyone observed that global climate data
is actually constant with normal variation
over the last TWO CENTURIES!
Has anyone considered that the
Greenhouse Effect Claims are without
scientific foundation and LIES!
All any fanaticist Totaliterian jerk has to do is
instill extreme fear ( no matter how unfounded )
then inject the premise that there is ONLY ONE solution
and that TIME IS RUNNING OUT
there is NO TIME FOR DEBATE
the QUESTION IS SETTLED
and WE MUST ACT NOW
or suffer
the ANNIHILATING CONSEQUENCES
Is anyone so stupid to subscribe to this?
YES
Because by far most of the human race is so STUPID.
Addendum
Look it up for yourself
it’s been hidden for decades
but it can be found in older texts about
THERMAL INFRARED SPECTROGRAHY
which conclusively shows that with the exception
of water vapor H2O
That EVERY gas they claim to be a heat trapping gas
is no more heat trapping than
Nitrogen, Oxygen and Argon
which compose 99.9 percent of the dry atmosphere
Therefor destroying their entire ” Greenhouse ” LIE!
Tourism is an energy intensive business. Millions of people visit Niagara Falls to stare at water that should be generating electricity.
Cities have become brighter at night since the widespread adoption of LED’s. The whole point of switching to LED’s is to save on energy, but it seems that businesses want to outshine the building next door. Stargazers call it light pollution.