France outlines new renewable energy programme
France is preparing a national plan for renewable energy, which has set aside any assessment of the EU's biofuels draft directive to generate a 10% share of biofuels in transport by 2020.
France's Environment and Energy Minister Jean-Louis Borloo offered the national plan for renewable energies on 17 November.
The plan aims to bring the share of renewables in the energy mix by 2020 to 23%. This corresponds to 20 million tonnes of oil equivalent and involves 50 different measures to develop biomass, wind, geothermal and solar energy.
To help achieve these targets, a €1 billion fund will be set up during 2009-11, and the tax credits will be extended to 2012.
Jean-Louis Borloo explained that the change of model and the change of scale is aimed to progress from an essentially carbon-based model to a fully decarbonised model where each home, each company, and each community will become its own energy producer.
France's Environment and Energy Minister Jean-Louis Borloo offered the national plan for renewable energies on 17 November.
The plan aims to bring the share of renewables in the energy mix by 2020 to 23%. This corresponds to 20 million tonnes of oil equivalent and involves 50 different measures to develop biomass, wind, geothermal and solar energy.
To help achieve these targets, a €1 billion fund will be set up during 2009-11, and the tax credits will be extended to 2012.
Jean-Louis Borloo explained that the change of model and the change of scale is aimed to progress from an essentially carbon-based model to a fully decarbonised model where each home, each company, and each community will become its own energy producer.
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