![]() ![]() In many cases, it is not just decorations that are being scaled back. And in Strasbourg, the famous Christmas market will have 20% fewer lights and an overall reduction in electricity consumption of 10%, the mayor’s office said. In Bordeaux, the mayor’s office said measures to reduce Christmas lights would cut their total energy bill to just €1,600 compared to €2,000 in 2021. Lyon will switch off illuminations earlier than usual every night. Toulouse’s light display will be shortened by two weeks. Multiple cities around France have made similar decisions in order to save energy this Christmas. “Total consumption on the Champs-Élysées will be the same as two people living in a 50 metre square apartment,” said Marc-Antoine Jamet, chairman of the Champs-Élysées committee. ![]() ![]() These small tweaks are expected to have a dramatic impact, with total electricity use forecast at 11,500 KWH – 44% less than in 2021. With the exception of December 24 and 31, the lights will also be switched off two hours and fifteen minutes earlier than usual every evening at 11:45pm. In a bid to maintain one of the most well-known festive sights in the French capital – and avoid exorbitant costs – the 2022 illuminations feature millions of energy-saving LED lights that will be on display for six, rather than seven, weeks. The Champs-Elysées committee, which governs the famous avenue, announced that illuminations would be “drastically limited” this year in light of soaring energy prices that have seen electricity costs more than double in France (even though regulated tariff increases for consumers are currently capped at 4%) and around the world. The 2022 version is “more traditional, and more welcoming”, he says. In previous years, the Paris resident remembers a more modern lighting design with luminous hoops encircling the 400 trees that line the road on either side. Behind him almost half a kilometre of fairy lights alternate between a steady golden glow and blue sparkles, meant to replicate illuminations on the Eiffel Tower. “I actually prefer them this year,” says one passer-by who prefers to remain anonymous. On Paris’s most famous boulevard, the Champs-Élysées, the Christmas lights have undergone a subtle change this festive season. ![]()
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