2023-06-07 10:05:58
The manager of the high voltage network estimates that the country will have to double its production of renewable energies by 2035.
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Caution. France’s electricity consumption will increase sharply by 2035 to meet European climate objectives and the challenges of reindustrialisation, estimates the manager of the high voltage network RTE in a report posted Wednesday, June 7. This acceleration in consumption will thus force the country to double its production of renewable energies by 2035, underlines RTE.
The manager thus expects a sharp increase in annual electricity consumption, of between 580 and 640 terawatt hours in 2035, while in 2021 he was still counting on consumption of 540 TWh in an average so-called reference scenario, and of 585 TWh in case of “deep reindustrialization” from the country. In 2022, the French consumed 460 TWh of electricity.
New forecasts that incorporate the war in Ukraine
The new forecasts incorporate the upheavals that have occurred over the past two years: the publication of the European “Fit for 55” program which reinforces the obligations of European countries to reduce CO2 emissions (-55% compared to 1990) and the war in Ukraine.
This rate of growth “highlights the magnitude of the challenge facing the power system,” insists RTE. We will have to quickly produce more low-carbon electricity even though the new nuclear reactors announced by the government will not see the light of day before 2035.
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