The Renewable Energy Union calls France to advance on heat and electricity

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The organization wants the country, although in a certain dynamic of renewable energies, to accelerate more on the parts of the heat and the electric dies, if it wishes to reach its industrial and climatic objectives.

Tuesday, October 15, the Union of renewable energies (SER) gave a press conference to take stock of the dynamics of renewable energies in France. The organization has called for compliance with the goals set by the Energy Transition for Green Growth Act (LTECV), which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% between 1990 and 2030 The new French energy mix, set by the Multiannual Energy Program (EPP), provides that 38% of the heat consumed must be of renewable origin. Heat and electricity, two major issues.

The SER wants to unleash the potential of energies like geothermal energy, underused

For Jean-Louis Bal, President of SER, " there is a real dynamic in our sector. Locks have been lifted, especially in the wind. But you have to amplify it if you want to keep the objectives Given in the framework of the energy roadmap of France. The organization thus offers its recommendations to accelerate the adoption of renewable energies.
As for the heat, it represents a large part of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, which for the Union must push to unleash the potential of underused energies As geothermal energy, which covered only 0.3% of the final heat consumption at the end of 2018 for surface geothermal energy, and 0.6% for deep geothermal energy.

The electrical industry must accelerate, promoting solar photovoltaic and wind power

The SER is also pushing for the temporary maintenance of the tax credit for the energy transition and the resumption of the carbon tax increase, which could encourage companies to agree to investments in renewable heat, while they were curbed by the movement of Yellow Vests.
Regarding the electricity sector, renewable energies such as hydro, wind, solar and bioenergy covered 21% of French consumption between July 2018 and June 2019. A growing share of the other but which is called to grow more.

The Union is counting on the development of photovoltaic solar energy, and is calling for the rapid publication of the Multiannual Energy Program to confirm the announcements made on offshore wind power last June, with targets set at 1 GW per year between 2020 and 2024.

Press conference of the SER to take stock of the dynamics of #ENR. A dynamic to be amplified to meet the 2030 objectives, especially for the #heat #renewable. #PPE pic.twitter.com/SNmshIURn7

– SER (@ser_enr) October 15, 2019