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“Techno”, cash, the Minister of Energy Transition is used to impossible missions. Here it is on the front line to manage the energy shortage.
By Geraldine Woessner
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” Lhe victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan”, confided Agnès Pannier-Runacher to the Point days before diving into the arena, citing John F. Kennedy. While France, faced with an unprecedented energy supply crisis, linked to the unavailability of some twenty of its nuclear reactors and amplified by the war in Ukraine, is preparing to face a winter punctuated by restrictions, even of rotating power cuts, the one that embodies the face of the crisis rose to the podium of the National Assembly, this Monday, December 5, to defend a politically crucial text.
No, because it responds to emergencies. The Renewable Energy Acceleration Bill, which aims to close the country’s clean energy backlog, will not…
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