Parliament definitively adopted Tuesday, by a final vote of the Senate, the bill for the acceleration of renewable energies carried by Agnès Pannier-Runacher which provides in particular for the development of offshore wind and solar power.
The bill to accelerate renewable energies carried by Agnès Pannier-Runacher has definitely been adopted, braving the political tumult of the pension reform. After long consultations and tough negotiations, Parliament adopted it definitively on Tuesday, by a final vote of the Senate with 300 votes in favor and 13 votes against.
Launch 50 offshore wind projects
In the midst of the energy crisis and under the pressure of global warming, this text aimed to make France catch up on its great delay in renewable energies. After having been the subject of a compromise between deputies and senators, it was therefore adopted at the heart of a day of mobilization against the pension reform.
It intends to meet the objective set by President Emmanuel Macron for 2050 to multiply by ten the production capacity of solar energy to exceed 100 GW and to deploy 50 wind farms at sea to reach 40 GW.
“Remove the locks” that delay these projects
It aims to “remove all the obstacles that delay the deployment of projects”, underlined the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher who fought hard to gain support in the oppositions on the right and on the left.
“We are the only European country not to have achieved its objectives” in terms of wind and solar power, she told the deputies who gave their last green light last week.
The text is divided into major sections: streamlining of administrative procedures to reduce the time it takes to deploy projects; accelerating the development of solar energy and offshore wind; improving the local acceptability of projects.
