Energy savings: System U boss isn’t opposed to closing its stores “earlier” this winter

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.