- The French government is currently in talks with the European Commission to make up for missing its 2020 target for a 23 percent share of renewables in its power mix. It announced last November that it may buy the missing megawatts from Italy or Sweden through statistical transfer agreements, a mechanism allowing an amount of clean energy sources to be shifted from one country’s books to another’s. However, France hasn’t taken any steps so far.
- French energy transition minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said that she would introduce two new energy-related laws by the end of this year, one dedicated to nuclear safety and another aimed at regaining control over high power prices and adapting energy output to the nation’s green goals, including a 55 percent reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. On the renewable energy front, the government could soon assess the efficacy of its renewable energy law, adopted in March 2023, in a bid to speed up the deployment of clean energy sources in the country.
- In autumn 2023, France is expected to adopt a package of green measures and tax credits that are part of its green industry bill. This includes a “Say on Climate” amendment adopted in July by the French national assembly that will require all listed companies to consult their shareholders on their climate strategies via “Say on Climate” resolutions. If agreed by both the lower and the upper houses, France would be the first country in the world to do so.
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This is the way the green despots who run the EU work. Notice that the key metric is the amount of Renewable Energy a country has. It isn’t Clean Energy, or Low Carbon Energy. The EU’s only concern is in building up renewables.
It doesn’t matter that France’s electricity is among the cleanest in the EU. It doesn’t matter that France’s per capita total CO2 emissions are about half that of Germany, for instance. No. France generates most of its electricity from nuclear power, and therefore France must be punished.
It reminds me of the signs and notices that sometimes appeared in the windows of US businesses in the 1800s. The signs would read:
Help Wanted Irish Need Not Apply
Perhaps today’s equivalent is:
CO2 Reduction Needed Nuclear Need Not Apply
- Pete
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Those who don’t like it can generate their own power.