native elected officers on the forefront of the power transition | EUROtoday

In the house stretch of the municipal elections, Marie-Hélène Gouedard, candidate for re-election, has given up organizing public conferences. “It’s going to be about something that’s only anti-wind power”regrets the mayor (with out label) of La Celle-Saint-Cyr (Yonne), 840 inhabitants. A challenge to construct three wind generators on a plot of land within the city was launched in 2015. A couple of years in the past, an affiliation was created to oppose it and authorized motion is underway. “Since then, there has been war in the village”she summarizes.

Local elected officers are on the forefront of the power transition, and the tensions that accompany it. The vital transformation of the present system locations them greater than ever on the heart of the sport: wind turbine tasks, but in addition photo voltaic parks, warmth networks and even methane digesters, which ought to make it attainable to progressively eliminate imported oil and gasoline and achieve sovereignty, are being constructed on the dimensions of a territory and are scattered throughout the nation – not like the nuclear park, which was in-built a really centralized method.

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