2023-09-19 20:00:06
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Published yesterday at 10:00 p.m., Updated yesterday at 10:43 p.m.
While the new French nuclear reactors should only be commissioned from 2035, the shorter development times for wind and photovoltaics would make it possible to provide the country with additional production capacity before 2030. Bob Pool/Bob – stock.adobe.com
EXCLUSIVE – Xavier Piechaczyk, chairman of the RTE management board, speaks of “a race once morest time to respond to climate and geopolitical challenges”.
The surge in prices at the pump reminds the French today: depending on fossil fuels imported from abroad is problematic for a country. This constraint, as well as that of the challenge of climate change, is now very present in everyone’s mind, at the time of the preparation, by the State, of the French Strategy for Energy and Climate (Sfec) . Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the entire energy landscape has been turned upside down. In this context, the publication of the new “forecast balance sheet” from the electricity transmission network manager (RTE) fuels the debate. The subtitle of this edition is eloquent: “2023-2035: first step towards carbon neutrality”. «It’s a race once morest time to respond to climate and geopolitical challenges», summarizes Xavier Piechaczyk, chairman of the board of RTE.
RTE immediately sets the scene. The question is no longer to know what share will be of nuclear power and that of renewable energies…
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