The energy programming bill, which will have to set France’s trajectories in each energy, could be presented in June, “hoped” on Wednesday the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier Runacher.
The energy programming text is intended to be presented when the (public) consultation on the future of our energy mix is completed, end of January for consultationsexplained the minister, auditions at the Snat.
Then there will be the work of preparing the law and a presentation I hope in June, which will then give rise to a review by Parliament. On the other hand, the minister did not specify the dates for the examination or, a fortiori, the adoption of this text, the legislative agendas being quite busy elsewhere.
This five-year law known as the energy and climate programming law (LPEC) must determine France’s objectives for each energy by 2033. In particular, it will have to record (or not) the relaunch of the nuclear program desired by the executive. Many parliamentarians and those involved in these subjects have thus regretted seeing two laws for the administrative acceleration of the atom and renewable energies already examined, before the objectives are enacted.
A need to reduce costs
On renewables, deputies and senators still have to try to establish a compromise text, with a view to final adoption. As for the bill to speed up the construction of new reactors at the administrative level, it is being examined in committee at the Senate. The objective of this text is not to put administrative procedures on the way to the construction of EPRs by 2035-37, the minister explained to the senators on Wednesday.
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It’s also about reducing costs, she added: It is important that the cost of this new program be competitivewhich is much easier said than done: renewable energies have an exit cost of 60 to 80 euros (MWh) and it is in this price level that it would be necessary to be able to have a nuclear price, and it will be necessary let us demonstrate it.
On the implementation schedule, the objective of the first pour of concrete, which is very ambitious, is by the end of the five-year period, therefore 2027. The reality is that this could be rather late 2027 than the beginning 2027, keeping our calendars well, she said. As for the commissioning, I say 2035-37 because 2035 would be without margin, with a perfect execution of the project, which perhaps calls for a little additional time, she estimated.
Finally, on financing, we have not decided which route will be preferred, but in any case there will be a regulatory issue in the context of the operation of the European electricity market, to be discussed with Brussels, she said.
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