A bill aimed at facilitating the construction of six new nuclear reactors will be presented to the Council of Ministers “in early November,” Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Wednesday when presenting the government’s energy strategy to the Senate.
“We must facilitate and accelerate the development of these ‘reactor projects, the first of which must start up before 2035’, in particular by making certain administrative procedures more flexible: this is the meaning of the nuclear bill that will be presented to the Council of Ministers at the beginning of November”, explained the head of government when opening a debate on energy in the Senate.
“A diverse mix is an opportunity”
Elisabeth Borne also indicated that “at the end of the month”, parliamentarians will examine the bill that aims to “accelerate the development” of renewable energies.
Regarding wind power, he wished before the senators “to improve integration in the landscape, and better plan the facilities to rebalance the development of wind energy in the territory, and avoid the anarchic implementation of the parks”.
“A diversified mix is an opportunity, a protection. That is why we have to advance on two legs, renewable and nuclear”, argued the President of the Government, presenting the Government’s energy strategy which is based on “three pillars”: sobriety, “the production of carbon-free electricity around to nuclear and renewable energy”, and finally “the development of new energy vectors such as carbon-free hydrogen”.
“Sobriety and electrification will change our uses and our daily lives” and “will protect us from energy shocks and future crises,” he argued. “They will help lower bills. By consuming less, we will spend less. I will make sure that the energy transition is a just transition,” he promised.
Towards an extension of the “down payment” paid to local authorities?
Elisabeth Borne also wanted the “safety net” established for local authorities in difficulty in the face of rising energy prices to be “extended until 2023” and that it could benefit “all communities”.
The town halls in trouble before the rise in energy prices but also in food prices can, from the beginning of October, request “a deposit” on the planned state aid to compensate for the increase in their expenses.
Source: BFM TV
