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Can France really go "twice as fast" on renewable energies?

2022-09-30T14:12:25.612Z


VERIFICATION - This is the objective displayed by Emmanuel Macron, in particular through the bill "relating to the acceleration of the production of renewable energies" (ENR). But is it really possible?


France must go "

twice as fast

" on the commissioning of renewable energy projects, wind and solar in particular, to meet the country's electricity needs, which will increase by 40% by 2050, a declared the President of the Republic, last Thursday, during the inauguration of the first wind farm at sea, off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique).

"

All ENR (renewable energies, editor's note) does not work, all nuclear does not

work", justified Emmanuel Macron.

He confirmed the objective of installing "

fifty offshore wind farms

"

,

as well as pursuing wind power on land.

Regarding the deployment of wind turbines, Emmanuel Macron did not mince his words: "

We must be lucid, our neighbors have gone much faster, in particular the countries by the Baltic Sea and southern Europe

" .

Contacted by

Le Figaro

, the Elysée cabinet clarified the statements of the Head of State: “

it took 12 years to develop…

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Source: lefigaro

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