The debates around the bill of acceleration of renewables, which should be voted definitively by the Senate on Tuesday, February 7, highlighted the extent of the divisions which persist between elected officials, far from an atmosphere of union national in favor of the energy transition.
by perrine mouterde
Analysis. Simplify administrative procedures to go “twice as quickly” in the deployment of renewable energies; Send a strong political message to support this sector. This was the double objective of the bill for accelerating renewables, whose examination ends in Parliament. At the origin of this text, there is an observation: France is the only country in the European Union (EU) not to have achieved its 2020 objectives – the renewals only represented 19.1 % of Its energy gross energy consumption, compared to 23 % planned -, and it is still not on the right trajectory to reach those of 2023.
The reasons for this delay are well known: complexity of procedures, multiplication of appeals, difficulty finding land, but also lack of financial and human means – and sometimes will -, in State services, for Advance the files.
First climate law of the five -year term, this text was therefore intended to assert the urgency to do much more and much better, now. Adopted in the assembly on January 31 thanks to the votes of the socialists and centrists, it should be voted definitively by the Senate on Tuesday, February 7. But the debates that took place in Parliament leave a partly missed feeling. Far from an atmosphere of national union in favor of the energy transition, they rather highlighted the extent of the divisions which persist between elected officials on the subject.
First, part of them – notably the national rally and members of the Republicans – still disputes the very need to quickly and massively develop renewables to combat climate change. The reference work is however unanimous: these energies are essential to electrify a large part of the uses and therefore gradually do without fossil fuels, which still represents 60 % of the energy mix.
no clear vision
Even with an extremely strong revival of nuclear, it would be necessary, by 2050, to multiply by at least seven the solar capacities, by 2.5 those of the earth’s wind and put in service more than forty Sea parks, according to the study of the manager of the RTE electricity transport network. Before that, the few years that separate us from 2030 will be decisive to lower greenhouse gas emissions; However, any new reactors will not come into service before 2040.
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