In cities across Europe, officials are weighing the politics of energy conversation against the desire for less restrictive celebrations.
Holiday lights are seen illuminating the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Thursday. In order to help save energy, the city decided that this year the flickering will stop a week earlier than in previous years. The lights will be also switched off at 11.45 p.m. instead of 2 a.m.
But beyond the wooden market stalls, the Italian city still has not decked out its granite-clad pedestrian streets with twinkling holiday lights as officials debate how bright to make the season during an energy crisis. "If they take away the lights, they might as well turn off Christmas," said Estrella Puerto, who sells traditional Spanish mantillas, or women's veils, in a small store in Granada, Spain, and says Christmas decorations draw business.Fewer lights are sparkling from the centrepiece tree at the famed Strasbourg Christmas market, which attracts 2 million people every year, as the French city seeks to reduce public energy consumption by 10 per cent this year.
From Paris to London, city officials are limiting hours of holiday illumination, and many have switched to more energy-efficient LED lights or renewable energy sources. London's Oxford Street shopping district hopes to cut energy consumption by two-thirds by limiting the illumination of its lights to 3-11 p.m. and installing LED bulbs.
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