“Debating our energy future is not an option, but a necessity” | EUROtoday

HAS the time when residents are getting ready to vote, on June 9, for the European elections and when the battle in opposition to local weather change is on the high of the considerations of French voters (37%, in comparison with 27% of Europeans, in response to the Eurobarometer of April 2024), simply behind the battle in opposition to poverty, by no means the top of the street resulting in “ nice transformation » vitality of the nation, in response to the components of Jean Pisani-Ferry and Selma Mahfouz, didn’t appear so far-off.

All the essential texts (Energy-climate programming legislation; multi-annual vitality programming; nationwide low carbon technique; nationwide plan for adaptation to local weather change) for imagining the nation's vitality future have been shelved, one after the opposite. 'different, by the federal government. To the democratic debate on our vitality selections, the manager clearly prefers the technocratic tranquility of decrees, satisfied that it will be inconceivable to debate the nation's vitality choices with out falling right into a “war of religion” between pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear.

Without debate, the course to observe in vitality issues was due to this fact determined by the President of the Republic, from his speech in Belfort, on February 10, 2022, establishing the relaunch of nuclear energy and the share of renewable energies (EnR) in our future combine. vitality. But this selection by the federal government displays a double error of research. Error relating to the stability of energy in Parliament, removed from being unfavorable to nuclear energy; error, too, relating to the sturdy symbolic dimension of a democratic deliberation on the vitality trajectory that the nation intends to observe.

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By conviction, as a result of it’s the solely manner, within the quick time period, to scale back our CO emissions₂ beneath the Paris Agreement of November 2015 and to ensure producers low cost vitality, or out of pragmatism, given France's delay within the growth of renewable vitality, all French political leaders and consultants admit: By 2050, our vitality mannequin should reconcile renewable energies and atoms.

If nuclear energy is meant to stay a serious part of our vitality mannequin for a very long time, nevertheless, solely the event of renewable energies will permit us to rework our vitality system. For what ? Because the brand new reactors won’t produce electrons for fifteen years and they’ll partly exchange the outdated energy vegetation which could have needed to be shut down by then.

Debating our vitality future just isn’t an choice, however a necessity. A debate in Parliament could be essential to make sure that the foundations and monetary sources required are long-term. Agreeing on the financing of recent reactors and renewable vitality wouldn’t be unreasonable both, at a time when the talk on public debt is heating up and EDF is revising its estimates upwards (+ 30% for the six EPRs) .

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