France is falling behind in its “ambitious objectives” in terms of wind energy and its aspirations even seem to be compromised in the current state of marine parks, according to a report published on Monday by the Court of Auditors. The jurisdiction points to “ambitious” but “unmet” objectives in terms of the development of wind electricity production, a public policy for which it has analyzed the “implementation conditions” and “results” since 2017.
In its report, the Court of Auditors (CDC) takes into account “certain responses” provided by the law for the acceleration of renewable energies (AER) enacted last March, which “seeks to remedy” these obstacles and which “simplifies the procedures”. a priority.
Regulatory obstacles
For the CDC, France’s difficulty in achieving its goals “is mainly due to the obstacles that hinder the development of wind energy.” The Court points out in particular the “regulatory obstacles” that “limit the available land” to only “20% of the territory” and the average time necessary to obtain authorization for the construction of parks, of seven years on land and ten years in the sea, “sometimes almost double that in neighboring countries.
While the AER law notably establishes “acceleration zones”, the Court also explains that “their preparation time does not guarantee coherence with the objectives of the PPE” (multi-annual energy programming). End In 2022, the wind capacity developed in France represented 20.9 GW, that is, only 80% of the target set in the last PPE.
Regarding offshore wind energy, the CDC recommends that the State “structure the project management and management of the deployment of offshore wind farms”, given a procedure that until now was “not very agile”, which implies “the intervention of the administrations in the plants sequentially. , and that “they cannot meet the challenge of developing 50 parks by 2050.”
Source: BFM TV
