Tuesday, November 18, 2008

In three years, each region will have a solar power plant

Leader on solar, geothermal energy or marine ago twenty years, France has totally dropped the research in these areas. They were then supplanted by nuclear power. She does not miss a second train of renewable energy, said Monday Jean-Louis Borloo, the inauguration of the first Salon on these new technologies.

"For a year, said the minister, I explained that we had entered an era of scarcity, because of the decline of fossil fuels. It was stupid. In fact, we will move from a scarcity of new abundance. It is like the automobile, the first to successfully develop the technology more advanced in these areas to be world leaders. "

Although France has been delayed, the replacement market looks promising: 24 billion euros by the Agency for Energy Management (ADEME) and some 120 000 jobs. This brought to at least 20% in 2020 (23% at the request of deputies from voting in the first reading of the "Grenelle 1) the share of renewables in energy consumption in France. This represents a doubling compared to today. The current 10.3% are primarily produced by hydroelectric dams. The effort will focus on geothermal, biomass, wind and solar of course.

Large wind farms

In this area, the installed capacity connected to the network in 2008 was 18 megawatts (MW) against 6 in 2006. The target for 2020 is 5 400 or production multiplied by 400. Jean-Louis Borloo announced Monday the construction by 2011 of at least one solar power plant in each region of France for a combined strength of 300 MW.

The regions of the South (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon, Corsica), but Rhone-Alpes and, of course, the DOM will be the most sought (200 MW). The tenders should be launched in the coming weeks. According to the Ministry of Ecology, solar energy could be competitive with the market price of electricity by 2020. Meanwhile, solar is supported with a takeover of electricity to 30 euro cents per kWh and 55 cents when it is integrated into the frame. A new rate is established at 45 euro cents for installations on buildings professionals.

The plan provides for the introduction next year of a "revolving fund heat." It will have one billion euros over three years and should help replace the electric heating. The plan also wind power. But if Jean-Louis Borloo has confirmed the goal of a park 25 000 MW installed, or 8 000 additional wind turbines, he remained evasive on the forthcoming regulations.

However, it is likely that it now favors the construction of large parks. "This will be discussed in the Assembly," he said. What hope to give these Mill Contemporary giants they believe are destroying the landscape. What also worry the professionals.

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