Following the Senate, the National Assembly abolished on Monday night the goal of reducing the share of nuclear power in the French electricity mix to 50% by 2035, during the examination of the nuclear acceleration bill.
Presented by the Senate, the article approved in first reading breaks a “blockade” introduced in the law in 2015 under the presidency of François Hollande to reduce the participation of nuclear energy, which the executive now wants to relaunch
It was voted by 97 votes against 36 in the Assembly, supporting LR and RN to the presidential field.
Environmentalist Julie Laernoes denounced a measure that “changes the nature of the text” by questioning “democratically debated” objectives, after the “Fukushima disaster” of 2011.
The Government does not want “neither ceiling nor floor”
Former Minister Barbara Pompili (Renaissance) joined the left to criticize the “shape” of this article, which accelerates the future multi-year energy programming law, expected at best this summer.
“I was very happy to have contributed to the Belfort speech” by Emmanuel Macron, dedicated in particular to the relaunch of nuclear energy in February 2022, but the law under review “is supposed to be a technical law” of acceleration, not of programming . law on the energy mix, he argued.
On the right, the leader of the LR deputies, Olivier Marleix, was delighted to end a 50-50 deal written in his eyes at a “table corner” between Socialists and Greens at the end of 2011, before of the presidency. and legislative elections in 2012.
The Minister for the Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher has explained that she does not want “neither ceiling nor floor” on the issue, while nuclear energy usually represents around 70% of electricity production, but only 63% in 2022 due to shutdowns of various reactors due to corrosion.
Source: BFM TV
