worn by Agnès Pannier-Runacher plans in particular a development of wind power and solar.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
Braving the political tumult of the pension reform, the Parliament definitively adopted Tuesday, February 7, by a final vote of the Senate, the bill of acceleration of renewable energies carried by Agnès Pannier-Runacher which provides in particular a Development of wind and solar wind.
In the midst of an energy crisis and under pressure from climate urgency, this text aims to make France catch its great delay in this area. The vote was acquired by 300 votes “for” and thirteen votes “against” (ten senators Les Républicains – including the president of the group Bruno Retailleau – and three centrists).
The bill intends to meet the objective set by President Emmanuel Macron for 2050 to multiply the solar energy production capacity by ten to exceed 100 gigawatts (GW) and to deploy fifty wind farms at sea for reach 40 GW. “The challenge of this text is to lift all the locks that delay the deployment of projects, no more or less,” said the Minister of Energy Transition, who fought firm to spare out supports in the right as to left.
With sometimes surprising results: the text which has been compromised between deputies and senators were voted by the vast majority of the Les Républicains senators, while deputies of the same party had voted against .
In both chambers, as in joint joint committee, the harshest negotiations have notably focused on planning the acceleration areas for the deployment of renewable energies, with the approval of the municipalities, and on the possible zones of exclusion. Local elected officials “offer and have the last word on zoning,” said Agnès Pannier-Runacher. And the exclusion zones will only be possible for territories that validate acceleration zones, she said.
“We wanted to give his hands on the elected officials,” said Sophie Primas, president of the Senate’s economic affairs committee. But the environmentalist Ronan Dantec says he fears a “blocking and slowing” device. His group, like the Communist, Republican group, citizen and ecologist (CRCE) with a communist majority, abstained.
“gas factory”
NGOs and actors in the renewable sector criticize a “gas factory”. “If the text is rather satisfactory on wind at sea, it remains too late and limited on solar, and above all very insufficient on the earth’s wind,” said Greenpeace France, while WWF calls mayors, ” of the device “, to mobilize” to give a real accelerator “.
Another sensitive subject, the supervision of agrivoltaism, combining agriculture and energy production. “With this law, agrivoltaism becomes a full -fledged sector of solar energy”, praised France Agrivoltaïsme which estimates that it could represent “nearly 60 % of the volumes of photovoltaic panels deployed by 2050”.
At the end of 2022, France displayed approximately 66 GW of total renewable electrical capacities distributed between 40 % for hydraulics (dams), 31 % for terrestrial wind and 24 % for photovoltaics. And the country should not achieve the objectives it had set for the deployment of electrical renewable energies over the period 2019-2023, according to a study published in late January.
For terrestrial wind turbines, the official objective of 24.1 GW of installed capacities established for the end of 2023 “will not be achieved”, the country barely reaching 20 GW at the end of September 2022, notes the annual barometer observed ‘Er.
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on the photovoltaic side, despite an increased growth rate since 2021 and a “partially confirmed increase in 2022 (…), the n ‘sector is still not in the right trajectory, “adds the observatory which is based, among other things, on the data of Enedis and EDF. This text is only the first part of a triptych on energy. In the spring, the executive intends to defend in the National Assembly the bill favoring the construction of new nuclear reactors, easily voted at first reading in the Senate on January 24.