As winter promises to be tense for the French power grid, companies could be forced to avoid power outages by reducing their consumption. Invited this Friday morning by BFMTV-RMC, the president of System U, Dominique Schelcher, did not rule out the idea of ​​closing supermarkets an hour earlier at the time of peak consumption.

“It is a possibility” and “nothing has been decided,” he clarified, however. For Dominique Schelcher, such a measure would be “totally extreme” and “can only be done if the entire profession decides so.” “The goal is not to [mais] do whatever it takes to find solutions.