LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse pleaded on Saturday in Saint-Vulbas (Ain), a town hosting the Bugey power plant, for a “Gaullian recovery plan” in energy matters, based in particular on a “massive remobilization” of the nuclear sector. .
An “energy disaster”
Denouncing “irresponsible and incoherent decisions” such as the closure of the Fessenheim power station (Haut-Rhin) and that scheduled for 12 additional reactors by 2035, Ms. Pécresse diagnosed “a real energy disaster” in France.
Emmanuel Macron’s “zig-zag” energy policy is “leading us straight into the wall” and “we no longer have the assurance of being supplied”, she said after a round table organized by local LR elected officials, attended by industrialists and energy players.
She thus advocated “a Gaullian recovery plan for energy with a massive remobilization of nuclear power”, and will “formally” oppose the scheduled closures.
Without this “nuclear recovery plan”, “we will not reach zero carbon in 2050”, affirmed the president of the Ile-de-France region, after a visit to the Bugey power plant, which has become the oldest in France. France since the closure of Fessenheim in 2020.
An EDF rescue plan
This program already involves “a reflection” on the construction of new EPRs, beyond the six planned for 2035. “The first thing I will ask my Prime Minister is to establish a large rescue plan for EDF, this very large company” that “the government has brought to its knees by collecting the revenue it needs for its investments and the renewal of the nuclear fleet”, further criticized Ms. Pécresse.
LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse pleaded on Saturday in Saint-Vulbas (Ain), a town hosting the Bugey power plant, for a “Gaullian recovery plan” in energy matters, based in particular on a “massive remobilization” of the nuclear sector. .
Denouncing “irresponsible and incoherent decisions” such as the closure of the Fessenheim power station (Haut-Rhin) and that scheduled for 12 additional reactors by 2035, Ms. Pécresse diagnosed “a real energy disaster” in France.
Emmanuel Macron’s “zig-zag” energy policy is “leading us straight into the wall” and “we no longer have the assurance of being supplied”, she said after a round table organized by local LR elected officials, attended by industrialists and energy players.
She thus advocated “a Gaullian recovery plan for energy with a massive remobilization of nuclear power”, and will “formally” oppose the scheduled closures.
New EPRs?
Without this “nuclear recovery plan”, “we will not reach zero carbon in 2050”, affirmed the president of the Ile-de-France region, after a visit to the Bugey power plant, which has become the oldest in France. France since the closure of Fessenheim in 2020. This program already involves “reflecting” on the construction of new EPRs, beyond the six planned for 2035.
“The first thing I will ask my Prime Minister is to draw up a major rescue plan for EDF, this very large company” that “the government has brought to its knees by taking the revenue it needs for its investments and the renewal of the nuclear fleet”, again criticized Ms. Pécresse.
While the French presidency of the EU will continue six weeks after her eventual election, the candidate has undertaken to “include nuclear energy in the low-carbon energies to be financed by the EU”. “The objective is to have this sector recognized as participating in the ecological challenge of the century, zero carbon”.
She was reserved on the “very sensitive issue” of wind power: “In some areas, we have reached or even exceeded the population’s tolerance threshold” and any new fields “must be done” with its “agreement “.
The energy project of candidate LR also includes “obviously renewable energies”, in particular “in local supply”.
In terms of thermal renovation of housing, it finally proposed the “merger” of the booklet A and the sustainable development booklet into a “green booklet” allowing the Caisse des dépôts et consignation to “finance loans”