The Senators unanimously reject the questioning of photovoltaic tariffs

Following this rejection by the Senate, unanimously, the players in the sector ask the government to abandon this inconsistent project of retroactive and unilateral revision of tariffs, contrary to the general interest. Solidarité Renouvelables asks the Prime Minister for a hearing before the text is returned to the National Assembly.

Solidarité Renouvelables, which brings together more than 300 players in the sector, salutes the care with which Senators from all sides have, to compensate for the lack of an impact study of the measure by the Government, taken the time to assess without prejudices the balances of the sector and the consequences of a denial by the State of its signature.

It appears that :

Confidence in the state's signature is the keystone of the system. Without it, everything collapses, well beyond solar. How could players in other sectors, and in particular hydrogen, biogas or offshore wind power, invest with confidence on the basis of other tariffs similarly guaranteed by the State?
The vast majority of power plants targeted by the government project now have modest financial returns, lower than those of other types of projects launched or supported by the government (highways, nuclear power plants, etc.).
Revising the tariffs would pose a solvency risk that is all the more inopportune for the players concerned because they are already weakened by the crisis: SMEs, farmers, rural areas, etc.
The Government is aware of the harmfulness of its project since it has chosen to target only part of the contracts, transforming its measure into a form of expropriation.

Solidarité Renouvelables therefore reaffirms that it is necessary, in the interest of all - public finances, businesses, territories, farmers, businesses, funders and citizens attached to the environment - to quickly put an end to this muddled revision of tariffs.

At a time when France loses four places in the ranking of November 2020 on the attractiveness of countries in terms of renewable energies, where the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili promotes the creation of an ecocide offense, and where the Council of State is giving France three months to prove the reality of its climate action, let's not undermine confidence in renewable electricity, the preferred energy of the French.

You can find the collective's manifesto and the list of the 300 signatories on: https://solidariterenouvelables.org/