France has enough electricity to last the winter despite cold snap

France will not have electricity worries this winter – even in the face of a cold snap like the one hitting the country this week. Last winter coal-fired plants had to be reactivated in the face of shortages. “We are expecting a peak this week that will occur on Wednesday morning at about 83 gigawatts, which will be covered by French electricity production,” Arnaud Mazingue, operations manager at the French electricity grid operator RTE, told BFM television.Unless temperatures are much lower tha