The law for the acceleration of renewable energies promulgated in the Official Journal

In the midst of the energy crisis and under the pressure of the climate emergency, the law aims to make France catch up on its great delay in this area.

It intends to meet the objective set by President Emmanuel Macron for 2050 to multiply by ten the production capacity of solar energy to exceed 100 GW and to deploy 50 wind farms at sea to reach 40 GW.

The text had been definitively adopted on February 7 by Parliament, after a final vote by the Senate. Thursday, the Constitutional Council had validated the recognition of imperative reasons of major public interest (RIIPM) for certain renewable energy projects, introduced into the law.

At the end of 2022, France had approximately 66 GW of total renewable electricity capacity, divided between 40% for hydraulics (dams), 31% for onshore wind power and 24% for photovoltaics.

And the country should not achieve the objectives it had set for the deployment of electric renewable energies over the period 2019-2023, according to a study published at the end of January.

For onshore wind power, the official target of 24,1 GW of installed capacity set for the end of 2023 "will not be achieved", the country barely reaching 20 GW at the end of September 2022, notes the annual Observ'ER barometer.

On the photovoltaic side, despite an increased growth rate since 2021 and a "partially confirmed recovery in 2022 (...), the sector is still not on the right trajectory", adds the observatory which is based, among other , on data from Enedis and EDF.

This text was only the first of three sections on energy. From Monday, the executive will defend in the National Assembly the bill promoting the construction of new nuclear reactors, voted easily at first reading in the Senate on January 24.

Then the Parliament will decide, at best this summer, on the energy future of France, with the multiannual programming law, fixing the share of each energy, including nuclear.