Renewable energies: the government will have a majority, wants to believe Olivier Véran

Government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Wednesday that he was hopeful of finding a “majority in the National Assembly to develop renewable energiesand pass the bill that is coming to the Senate. “I can’t imagine for a second that we don’t have a majority in the National Assembly to develop renewable energies in our country“, replied Olivier Véran at the exit of the Council of Ministers.

“This is a concern of everyone, whatever the political idea that each parliamentarian may hold: when we talk about building fifty offshore wind farms, multiplying by ten the solar power in our country, getting out of the dependence on carbon energies, I believe that the path to consensus can be identifiedadded the minister. “In particular, you have a few parliamentary groups that are very focused on the ecological issue and renewable energies, I imagine that in this area, political politics will give way to the general interest.“, he insisted.

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Not seeing how parliamentarians who have “ecological fiber“could vote”against a text that advocates renewable“, the spokesperson “prefers to consider that there will be a majority in Parliament on this important text“. The Senate with a right-wing majority is working from Wednesday in first reading on the bill to accelerate renewable energies (EnR) carried by the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

In the midst of the energy crisis, this text aims to make France catch up on its great delay in renewable energies by simplifying administrative procedures and accelerating the development of solar energy and wind power at sea. Energy transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, warned on Wednesday against the “political postureson this text. But the recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass in force is not at this stage “not on the agenda“, she said, on France Inter.