“The electrification of uses is not an ideological fad, but the key to French energy sovereignty” | EUROtoday

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HASfter the interminable collection of the price range, France is getting ready to painfully full one other file, simply as laborious, that of the multi-annual vitality programming (PPE). The nation needed to undertake this vitality roadmap earlier than 1er July 2023. Two and a half years later, whereas the interval speculated to be lined by the doc (2025-2035) has already begun, the PPE ended up changing into “sluggish energy programming”.

Everything inspired us to speed up: the local weather emergency, geopolitical pressures to strengthen our vitality sovereignty, the necessity to help reindustrialization which, with out visibility on produce, can’t be deliberate. But now, between the warfare in Ukraine, power political instability for the reason that dissolution of the National Assembly and the dearth of consensus on our vitality selections, France has procrastinated. As with decreasing the price range deficit or anticipating the growing older of the inhabitants, that is the worst technique. Problems hardly ever resolve themselves, and the extra time is wasted, the tougher it’s to beat challenges.

The content material of the decree on PPE must be revealed by February 15, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has simply indicated. For him who desires to make 2026 a “useful” 12 months regardless of the absence of a majority, the success of the PPE is a chance to not be missed. Both a guiding framework for private and non-private investments, a compass for reaching carbon neutrality in 2050 and a safety of provide device, it circumstances the trajectories of nuclear energy, renewable energies, demand management, networks and storage. The goal is to cut back the share of fuel and oil in our vitality mannequin, to “to achieve that 60% of our consumption in 2030 is electric”Mr. Lecornu stared.

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