Minister for Industry in the government of Elisabeth Borne, Roland Lescure remains in the government of Gabriel Attal and even gains rank in the process, by recovering the energy portfolio, all under the tutelage of Bruno Le Mayor, super-minister of the economy, finance and industrial and digital sovereignty. This is one of the political originalities of the reshuffle that took place in January: the passage of energy into the fold of the economy and industry, in Bercy.
A throwback of around fifteen years denounced by numerous environmental associations, who fear that this choice in fact signals the prevalence of nuclear power in French energy policy to the detriment of renewable energies. “France Renouvelables does not dare to believe that this reorganization marks a lack of ambition and an absence of direction on the questions of planning the exit from fossil fuels, electrification of uses, reindustrialization and acceleration of the deployment of renewable energies , in particular for photovoltaic solar and wind power »reacted, Friday February 9 in the morning, the association, in a press release all in euphemisms.
In the office of the new delegate minister, we assure on the contrary that “the union of industry and energy aims to transform the entire French productive industrial system in the service of the energy and ecological transition”.
In fact, the Ministry of Industry and Energy should share common administrations with the Ministry of Ecological Transition headed by Christophe Béchu, in particular the General Directorate of Energy and Climate, the Directorate of Management and water resources planning, as well as joint supervision of the Ecological Transition Agency.
Transfer of power canceled at the last minute
Until January, energy had benefited from a full-fledged ministry, dedicated to “energy transition”, led by Agnès Pannier-Runacher, arrived during the appointment of the Attal government and was drafted in, Thursday February 8, as minister. delegate for agriculture to Marc Fesneau. A sign among others of this change, Roland Lescure will occupy his new position in his Parisian offices of the Ministry of the Economy, on the banks of the Seine, in Bercy, and not in the Hôtel de Roquelaure, located on Boulevard Saint-Germain, which until now housed the Ministry of Energy Transition.
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