Will planned electricity shutdowns occur in France this winter ?
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NO

French government asked the prefects to prepare for this "hypothetical" scenario.

The shutdowns would be planned, during peak hours, with a rotation, in order to protect the grid and essential services. Affected people would be warned the day before. This plan is for metropolitan France except Corsica. It will affect individual consumers.

A warning will be emitted three days in advance on "Ecowatt" : https://www.monecowatt.fr/

This market is about a planned shutdown according to this plan. Unplanned failure, or enterprise only shutdowns, are out of scope.

Date is from now (even if it's still autumn) to March 21th 2023.

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predicted NO

No surprise here, the plan was not used. It was unlikely from the start. Thanks to alternate sources of natural gas, real effort to save energy (mostly due to cost) and a relatively mild winter, the rolling blackouts were avoided.

predicted YES

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Don't the losses from strikes make this already true?

predicted NO

@MarkIngraham This market is about planned rolling blackout. A plan for this has been prepared by the government as an energy shortage is possible. A similar plan exists in the UK, there is another market. I've said earlier that cut by striking workers didn't count as they obviously are not part of the government plan.

predicted YES

@Zardoru OK well then I will sell because the government plan is obsoleted by the strike, no reason for them to use ecowatt.

predicted NO

If strike cause less production and government triggers the rolling blackout plan, it resolves to YES.

If there is a savage cut (EDF workers have never done that) it's NO

bought Ṁ10 of YES

How about shutdowns resulting from a general strike?

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