Two days after its adoption in Parliament, here is the law for the acceleration of renewable energies challenged before the Constitutional Council. The deputies of the National Rally (RN), then those of the group Les Républicains (LR), seized the institution to challenge several measures of the text voted on Tuesday February 7, they announced Thursday.
The RN castigates in a press release a “headlong rush in favor of intermittent energies” in connection with “wind and solar energy lobbies”.
In its referral to the Constitutional Council, sent to Agence France-Presse, the far-right group believes that the law creates a “tiebreaker” between renewable energy producers and other energy companies.
The RN aims for a tariff modulation mechanism that could be put in place to support renewable energy projects in areas that are less favorable from a meteorological point of view (article 3 bis B). The group also points “a guarantee fund intended to compensate for part of the financial losses that would result from a cancellation by the administrative judge of an environmental authorization” (article 5 bis).
The supposed “nuisances” of wind turbines
RN deputies also attack the recognition of imperative reasons of major public interest (RIIPM) for certain renewable projects (article 4), a measure intended to limit certain disputes. In their eyes, she “constitutes de facto and de jure an unjustified advantage significantly unbalancing the weapons of the trial in favor of the energy operator”.
Marine Le Pen’s group had scrapped throughout the debates against the bill, attacking the « nuisances » wind turbines. “It destroys our landscapes”That “twist the eyes and the brain”had finally let go of the deputy Pierre Meurin.
At the very end of the evening, the LR deputies in turn announced to seize the Constitutional Council. Among other criticisms, they also invoke a breach of equality between energy producers, with tariff modulation, as well as a “violation of the right to a fair trial” with Article 4 on the imperative reason of overriding public interest.
The LR deputies had also fought the bill, unlike their colleagues in the Senate, where the text was very widely adopted.
Referral to the Constitutional Council suspends the time limit for the promulgation of the law. He has one month to decide.
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