With the approach of a winter that could be punctuated by power cuts in part of the country, caused by limited activity of the French nuclear fleet and the war in Ukraine, the bill aimed at accelerating the production of renewable energies (ENR) arrives in public session at the National Assembly, Monday, December 5. If this text was adopted, on November 5, by an overwhelming majority in the Senate dominated by the right and the center, the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, maneuvering on this bill, must manage to find an agreement in a Hemicycle with unstable balances.
With this bill – the only one of this parliamentary session devoted to ecology – the executive intends to make up for part of the French delay in terms of the deployment of renewable energies, which represented, in 2020, only 19.3 % of gross final consumption, against 23.7% forecast. France will also have to spend several hundred million euros this year for not having achieved its objectives. Worse, it is still not on the trajectory set by its energy roadmap. According to the scenarios of the manager of the Electricity Transmission Network (RTE), the production of renewable energies must increase massively and quickly if the country wishes to meet its climate objectives, even if the production of nuclear electricity remains significant.
“France must be the first nation to phase out fossil fuels before 2050”insisted the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with Parisian, Sunday, December 4. Before recalling the spirit of the bill: “Investing, simplifying the rules, and accelerating projects because basically, the key, on the climate as on attractiveness, is speed. » This text aims to “divide by two” the deployment times for these low-carbon energies by limiting the possibilities of legal recourse, by promoting the deployment of offshore wind power, by increasing the number of installation areas such as car parks or the edges of motorways.
LR hostile to onshore wind turbines
But to obtain votes or even abstentions on this bill – the final adoption of which is only scheduled for January – the presidential coalition will have to come to terms with the opposition of the National Rally (RN) and above all of a large part of the elected Les Républicains (LR), so far an extra force in the relative majority on government texts. “We reach out to the LRs, says the chairman of the sustainable development commission, Jean-Marc Zulesi. But the difficulty is that they are not willing to compromise or to make proposals that do not diminish the ambition of the text. »
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