The outgoing president wants to develop, if it is re-elected, solar and wind when the candidate of the national gathering promises to dismantle all the terrestrial wind turbines.
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This is a point of notable convergence between the candidates in the running for the second round of the presidential election: both want to revive nuclear power. The main source of electricity in the country – up to 70% – emits very little greenhouse gases, responsible for global warming, and is easily piloted, defend the “pro-atom”. It raises the question of radioactive waste and the security of the power plants, replicate the detractors.
Install new nuclear reactors, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen vote for. But not in the same proportions, or especially in the same electrical mix. While France still shows a delay in this area, President Candidate promises to “build a French renewable energies production sector”. It projects the “multiplication by ten” of solar power and the “implantation” of about fifty wind farms at sea, by 2050; Hence his displacement in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), Thursday, April 14th.
Conversely, the far-right candidate wants to end the 8,000 terrestrial wind turbines already in place in the country. She claims “a progressive dismantling of sites starting with those who arrive at the end of life”, as well as the cessation of subsidies. It also promotes a moratorium for any new wind installation, as in its 2017 program – as well as for solar, with perhaps some exceptions “in the south of France” or “In addition to sea”, said M me Le Pen, April 12, on France Inter.
Le Pen, “Out of frame”
m. Macron criticized “complete aberration”, Thursday, on the network of Radios France Bleu. “A renewable energies moratorium makes it impossible to reindust and compliance with climate trajectories from the decade 2030”, warned, in February, RTE (the national manager of the electricity transport network), after two years of work of modelization. “Emmanuel Macron remains in the context of the expertise of RTE, while Marine Le Pen, in his program, is completely out of this frame,” says François-Marie Breon, researcher at the climate science laboratory and the Environment.
The member of the Pas-de-Calais, in the Hauts-de-France, the first wind region of the country, takes over the classic arguments: the space taken by these masts in the landscape, “a dangerous chimera”, but also their intermittent production according to the weather. According to Anna Creti, Director of the Chair Economy of Climate at Paris-Dauphine University, it is “an electoral posture to go in the direction of certain inhabitants. Especially those developing the “Nimby Syndrome” (“Not in My Back Yard”): wind turbines, okay, but not next to my home. These criticisms have also pushed Emmanuel Macron to moderate its objectives for terrestrial wind. In February, the head of state announced his desire to double the existing capacity on the ground by 2050, and no longer on the horizon 2030. At the time of the balance sheet of his five-year, the Environmental NGO Greenpeace him reproach “a lack of courage to organize and accelerate the output of fossil energies”, those most emitting greenhouse gases. In 2021, oil and gas accounted for a little more than 60% of the final energy consumption in France, the share of electricity is, for the moment, only 25%.
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