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France to order air-conditioned shops to keep doors shut

Ecological transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher said there were also plans to restrict the use of illuminated signs.

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Air-conditioned shops in France will be ordered to keep their doors closed or risk being fined, a minister said Sunday announcing an upcoming rule to combat energy wastage, reports FRANCE 24.

Leaving the doors open when the air conditioning is on leads to "20 percent more consumption and... it's absurd," French minister of ecological transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher told RMC radio.

The minister said there were also plans to restrict the use of illuminated signs.

"In the coming days, I will issue two decrees: the first will widen the ban on illuminated advertising, whatever the size of the city, between 1 am and 6 am", with the exception of airports and stations, Pannier-Runacher told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

Read more of this report from FRANCE 24.