Adoption of the renewable energy acceleration law: the Amorce network denounces a new failed act

Even in spite of interesting technical advances, this will not allow the real shift expected in favor of renewable energies in the territories by avoiding the massive use of fossil and nuclear energies.

AMORCE proposals heard in favor of the involvement of communities in projects

AMORCE would like to highlight several technical measures supported during the drafting of this text (release of land, acceleration of investigation procedures, creation of a guarantee fund for project promoters) and which should promote the development and involvement communities in renewable energy projects (strengthening the participation of communities in project companies and energy communities).

AMORCE is also satisfied with the consideration of a measure that it has supported for a long time: the possibility of regionalized calls for tenders, with differentiated tariffs according to regional objectives, potentials and the location of projects in the acceleration zones.

Despite these technical advances, it is to be feared that this text will be insufficient to make up for the delay and even less to achieve new ambitions, which AMORCE hopes to enhance, in the future PPE.

Too little space given to the development of renewable and recovered heat

If the law provides for a modification of the local planning of renewable energy production, with the creation of renewable energy acceleration zones as a keystone, AMORCE fears in the first place that the definition of these zones will be a source of complexity for certain municipalities. In addition, the support envisaged by the State as well as the data made available seem insufficient in view of the complexity of this obligation and the capacity of the State to provide the necessary elements for the communities. AMORCE remains perplexed as to the concrete effectiveness of these zones, once the difficulties in defining them have passed, particularly with regard to the non-binding opinion of the regional energy committee (CRE).

AMORCE also deplores the lack of place given to renewable and recovered heat. The latter was not taken into account at all in the initial text, and was finally added after many requests. Nevertheless, it remains on the margins of this text, so heat represents 50% of the country's consumption and remains largely carbon-based. Renewable and thermal recovery energies have fabulous development potential and are produced locally as close as possible to consumers. AMORCE therefore remains convinced that the end of dependence on fossil fuels will not only pass through the development of electrical energies, but also and above all through the development of renewable and recovered heat in the territories.

Finally, AMORCE wishes to emphasize that beyond the technical measures and strategic choices, there remains the lack of human and financial resources within the communities but also within the decentralized services of the State to really accelerate the projects.

In conclusion, AMORCE deplores the lack of means and ambitions for the development of renewable energy projects and particularly renewable and recovered heat. AMORCE also wonders about the place and the means granted to EnR projects, in comparison with measures favoring the development of nuclear power in a completely different proportion. AMORCE pleads for the development of renewable energies, in particular thermal, as close as possible to consumers, at the scale of the territories and with the communities. The development of the PPE is now the next deadline to try to initiate a real turning point and to make it, finally, a national priority.