Highlights Efficiency, renewables, nuclear need investment Ageing hydro masks renewables’ contribution Financing clarity needed for post-2030 plan France is not acting fast enough to meet its energy and climate targets, the International Energy Agency said in a policy review report Nov. 30.
Now In particular the country’s electricity market needed a clearer policy strategy, it said. “By investing much more in energy efficiency, renewable energy and nuclear power, France can accelerate progress on its key energy and climate goals,” said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, launching the report in Paris alongside France’s Minister for the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili. “This review comes in a crucial time frame, in particular to anticipate the French multi-annual Plan review preparation and the energy and climate programming act discussion in 2023,” said Pompili. Half of France’s renewables output came from […]