The renewable energy sector welcomes the recommendations to accelerate France's transition to electricity.

The French Renewable Energy Association (SER) welcomed the "lessons of the report which confirm that the current situation of abundant electricity production constitutes a major opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization and reindustrialization" of France.

"As RTE points out in the update of its forecast balance sheet, our country has a major asset: totally decarbonized electricity, competitive with our European neighbors and currently abundant," he adds, while the government indicated, through Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu after the publication of the report, that it wanted to "accelerate" France's transition to electricity and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.

Renewable energies are crystallizing the opposition of part of the political class, notably the National Rally but also part of the right, who accuse them of costing a lot in public aid and of unbalancing the electrical system due to their intermittency.

For France Renewables, the abundance of electricity "constitutes a strategic asset" for France which allows it "to deploy real electrification while protecting consumers from the risks of supply crisis, whether technical or geopolitical".

The French Electricity Union (UFE) also appreciated "the quality of the analyses produced by RTE, which provide essential insights to players in the energy system and to public decision-making".

"These analyses reveal the value of investments already made, for the benefit of the major breakthrough that the electrification of uses (transport, industry, building... editor's note) must represent, the strengthening of our energy security, the competitiveness of our economy and the respect of our European climate commitments," emphasizes the electrical industry union.

In its 2025 forecast published on Tuesday, RTE reaffirms "the relevance of rapid electrification of the country to reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels, improve its trade balance and enable its rapid decarbonization".

The manager emphasizes in particular that the combination of nuclear and renewable energies, at the center of heated debates within the political class, remains "the cheapest mix, the most technically accessible and the most technologically 'de-risked' for France".

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