Pensions: reductions in electricity production overnight, fewer initiatives this weekend

"It is possible that the initiatives will be fewer", indicated on Friday Claude Martin, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT, according to whom, in this "marathon" of the challenge, the priority is to "succeed again on Tuesday 31" national day of interprofessional mobilization, "with a maximum of people on strike and in the street".
During the night from Thursday to Friday, "a drop in production" affected the Paluel nuclear power plant, affecting units (production units) 3 and 4 of the plant and causing a drop in production of some 940 Mwh.
It seemed to be over since the beginning of the morning, according to messages posted on the EDF website.
These cuts in production, strictly supervised by the manager of the RTE high voltage lines, normally have no effect on the general public and above all affect the company's finances.
Energy sector workers opposed to pension reform rallied all day Thursday at power stations, refineries, ports and docks, for a warm-up before the national inter-professional day of action of January 31.
TotalEnergies employees, who had given two days' notice, finally suspended their movement on Thursday evening, in order to prepare the ground for the day of the 31st which will affect all sectors: schools, civil servants, transport, services... call from all unions.
One of them, the UNSA, has identified more than 200 gathering places on the 31st, as many as for the day of the 19th.
Electricity and gas agents are on strike for their part and could carry out new actions on Friday.
Thursday, in addition to cuts in electricity production and filter dams at the entrance to certain power stations, they carried out a host of so-called "Robin Hood" actions according to the CGT, to "intensify the balance of power".
From Lille to Marseille, everywhere in France, they have "placed free electricity or gas" schools, public housing and hospitals, granted reduced rates to small businesses, and restored power for users who had been deprived of it.
"In the Lille metropolis, a hundred social housing units and 25 bakeries were switched to free gas on Thursday," Claude Martin, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT, told AFP.
Asked about these operations, carried out in parallel with targeted power cuts, the Minister for Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher was very critical.
"I would say it's right pocket, left pocket, it's an initiative which in the end amounts to making the taxpayer pay", declared the minister on France 2, Friday morning, contesting the "generosity" of the initiative. .