Adopted by the Senate in early November, the text carried by the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, should face the opposition of the RN and part of LR. The government will have to find compromises on the left.
by Jeremiah Lamothe, Mariama Darame and Perrine Mouterde
Approaching a winter that could be punctuated by power cuts in a part of the country, caused by a limited activity of the French nuclear park and the war in Ukraine, the bill aimed at accelerating the Production of renewable energy (ENR) arrives in public session in 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 of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, at the maneuver on this bill, must manage to find an agreement in a hemicycle with unstable balances.
With this bill – the only one in this parliamentary session devoted to ecology -, the executive intends to catch up with part of the French delay in terms of deployment of renewable energies, which only represented in 2020, 3 % of gross final consumption, compared to 23.7 % planned. France will also have to pay several hundred million euros this year for not having achieved its objectives. Worse, it is still not on the trajectory fixed by its energy roadmap. According to the scenarios of the manager of the electricity transport network (RTE), renewable energy production must increase massively and quickly if the country wishes to respect its climatic objectives, even if the production of nuclear electricity remains important.
“France must be the first nation to get out of fossil fuels before 2050”, insisted the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, In An interview with the Parisian , Sunday December 4. Before recalling the spirit of the bill: “Investing, simplifying the rules, and accelerating the projects because basically, the key, on the climate as on attractiveness, is speed.” This text thus aims to “Divide by two” the deployment deadlines for these low carbon energies by limiting the possibilities of legal appeal, by promoting the deployment of wind turbines at sea, by multiplying the location areas as in parking lots or the edges of motorways.
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But to obtain votes or even abstentions on this bill – whose final adoption is only planned for January -, the presidential coalition will have to deal with the opposition of the National Rally (RN) and especially With a large part of the elected representatives Les Républicains (LR), so far auxiliary force for a relative majority on the texts of the government. “We reach out to the LR, says the president of the Sustainable Development Commission, Jean-Marc Zulesi. But the difficulty is that they are not in a will to compromise or to make proposals that do not come to lessen the ambition of the text. “
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