Head left! The bill to speed up the installation of wind turbines and solar panels in France arrives this Monday in the House of Assembly, with the macronistas hoping to find allies among socialists and environmentalists to overcome the reluctance of the LR.
After trusting in the right to have their previous texts approved, the majority changes course this time with this bill that aims to compensate for France’s delay in renewable energy (EnR). A hot topic on the news, marked by fears of power outages in January.
During the committee review, “we took proposals from the deputies, in particular from the left and from the LIOT”, argued the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher. “All the conditions are given for them to vote for this text,” she pleaded.
Deployment of 50 offshore wind farms
The executive, which only has a relative majority in the Palais Bourbon, invokes the experience of the “compromise” found in the Senate, where the text was widely adopted with the support of the right.
“I have confidence in the national representation and I see that a fairly broad agreement has been found in the Senate. So I’m confident,” Parisian Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday.
The Head of State has set the challenges for 2050: multiply by ten the production capacity of solar energy to exceed 100 gigawatts (GW) and the deployment of 50 offshore wind farms to reach 40 GW.
At the moment, solar and wind account for only 19.3% of gross final energy consumption, already below the 2020 target of 23%, and France remains too reliant on imported fossil energy.
Republican “Red Lines”
But in the Assembly, the LR deputies intend to reintroduce measures that the Senate has partly renounced: the mayors’ veto right over new projects, as well as the prohibition of wind turbines in the sea less than 40 kilometers from the coast.
“Seeing the LR of the Assembly go against the LR of the Senate is always surprising”, screams the Renaissance speaker Pierre Cazeneuve.
Deploring the “short-term reading” and the “red lines” of the LR, Pierre Cazeneuve believes that his strategy will be difficult to defend because “it is a matter of energy sovereignty, purchasing power, jobs and industries.”
The RN also wants to question the text, in the face of wind turbines, “intermittent energies that make us dependent on the weather as well as depending on other countries”, accuses the deputy Pierre Meurin.
Source: BFM TV
