The State prosecuted for "inaction" in favor of renewable energies

Eolise, an engineering company based in Poitiers, had sent a request to the government in October listing the regulatory measures deemed necessary in particular to speed up the authorization procedures for projects, which are currently slow and complex.

The appeal, filed in February, asks the Council of State to "cancel the implicit refusal opposed to the request" and to enjoin the State to take "all useful measures" to develop renewable energies, explained to AFP the lawyer of the study office, Me David Deharbe, of the firm Green Law Avocats.

"The Prime Minister and the Minister for Energy Transition acknowledged receipt (of the request sent in October), but did not respond to it. We ask the Council of State to examine this refusal to take regulatory measures", he specified.

Eolise proposes 10 measures, among which the mandatory communication of the mapping of areas favorable to wind power, public awareness or the limitation of the scope of certain interim measures-suspension which locally slow down certain projects, via the imposition of "the climate emergency" or "energy" to accelerate projects.

For Eolise, "the recent vote by Parliament on the so-called law on the acceleration of renewable energies has confirmed the essential nature of these energies in our energy mix". But "in a context of climate and energy crisis, this law will not make it possible to develop these energies in France and to achieve the planned objectives", estimates the company in a press release, judging that "the law ignores the measures concrete and essential", necessary.

The applicants do not expect an outcome "for at least a year".

The Ministry of Energy Transition, requested by AFP, declined to comment.