The government has asked the prefects to "
put in place all the required actions
" to accelerate the renewable energy projects in progress, including wind farms, sources of regular controversy in public opinion, according to a circular dated Friday and obtained by the Context site.
Faced with the energy crisis, four ministers, including those of the Interior, Ecological Transition and Energy Transition, are asking the decentralized State services to "
put in place all the actions required to facilitate and accelerate the treatment files (...) in progress and to come
".
For the government, it is a question of “
ensuring that no instruction exceeds 24 months, except in very exceptional circumstances
”, according to this circular.
Terawatts of pending projects
The decentralized State services are also invited to observe “
an objective of 18 months between the date of submission of a project to renew or increase the power of existing wind farms, and its implementation
”.
In total, these files under investigation represent “
nearly 10 GW of photovoltaic and wind projects and around 5 TWh of renewable gas capacities
”.
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While the development of wind power projects is arousing more and more opposition, slowing down their deployment, the government wants to pass a bill in the fall to speed up the procedures and make up for France's great delay in wind power and the solar.
Wind power was, until a few months ago, considered less of a priority for the government.
President Emmanuel Macron had also lowered France's ambitions in terms of the development of wind turbines in February, in the face of the disputes they raise in certain territories.
"
We must not tell stories by saying that French society is ready to deploy (wind power) twice, three times faster
“, had judged for her part the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher in an interview with AFP in May.
