Energy sovereignty: a law before the end of the year

Roland Lescure, confirmed Thursday evening as deputy minister in charge of industry, with a portfolio extended to energy, confirmed this law. But he sets a more distant horizon for it than expected. During the show “Dimanche en politique”, on France 3, he mentioned this law “during the year” but “not necessarily in the first half” because “I want to take the time for the debate”.

This debate will undoubtedly focus on the place of renewable energies and nuclear power in the future. In January, the government withdrew any quantified objective in terms of renewable energies, which sparked an outcry from certain associations, which were very cautious on this point.

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The opposition is especially likely to come from Brussels, which has for years been putting forward quantified objectives in terms of the share of renewable energy when France has been insisting, for several months, on an objective linked to low-carbon energies. Between the two, there is French nuclear production, low carbon, but not renewable. The debate desired by the new minister in charge of energy is likely to be lively. Which explains why it gives a more distant horizon.