According to Agence ORE-Opérateurs de Réseaux d’Énergie, the ongoing droughts and rising temperatures pose serious risks to France’s electricity supplies, making the country’s main source of energy- nuclear and hydro- particularly vulnerable. Its figures reveal nuclear power supplies 63 percent of France’s energy needs, while hydroelectric operations – which provided a vital energy bulwark against the possibility of blackouts in the winter – supply a further 11 percent.
Experts have raised concerns about whether the supply of renewable energy and next-generation nuclear power plants will be sufficient to meet demand. Therefore, they suggest that the transition to green and renewable energy sources should be accompanied by greater individual energy responsibility.
