The association outlines the 5th edition of its forward-looking work, which provide for the closure of the last nuclear reactor in 2045.
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No new nuclear reactor, a power consumption divided by two, a 100% electricity production from renewable energies … The fifth edition of the negaratory association’s scenario will undoubtedly contribute to feeding the debate, from More and more lively in the context of the presidential campaign, on the contours of the energy transition. If the association, driven by independent experts, will publish its detailed report only on October 26, it reveals the broad lines, Wednesday, October 20th.
“We are in a context of concern, between the ecological and societal emergency on one side and the finding of an action that is still not at the rendezvous of the other, explains Yves Marignac, Negawatt’s word. The idea is to draw a common goal and trace a concrete trajectory to reach it. “
Since its creation, in 2001, the association is based on the same fundamentals, to start with sobriety, a notion often occult of the debate on energy, which aims at prioritizing the essential needs in individual uses and collective. For example, it is about eliminating waste, containing urban sprawl, prefer the bike to the car … but in any way to “go back to the candle”.
“reduce by 30% electricity consumption in a building by turning off coffee machines, air conditioning or screens when there is no one in the offices, it does not diminish the comfort of life, ensures Stéphane Chatelin, the director of Negawatt. And we insist on the collective aspects: to encourage bike, it takes bike paths, parking … There are public policies of the sobriety to be implemented. “
Priority to powerful energy renovation
In order to reduce the amount of energy needed to satisfy the same need, Negawatt also puts on efficiency. These levers are then declined by business sectors. For the building, the experts propose to privilege the rehabilitation of existing buildings rather than new constructions, or to generalize the most powerful heating systems. Above all, they call, once again, to make efficient energy renovation a priority, to hope to achieve the goal in the law to renovate the entire park at a low consumption level by 2050.
Increased truck filling rate, generalization of electric and hybrid vehicles, decreased production of steel, cement and plastic, increased number of durable and repairable products, sharp rise in recycling rates, decrease of 50% of the amount of animal protein consumed, development of organic farming … Thanks to all these measures, energy consumption could have decreased by 53% by 2050. If this decrease may seem important, It is, in fact, to the objective on the government’s national low-carbon strategy, which consists of “halting energy consumption in all sectors of activity”.
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