The PPE is the multi-year energy program. It is mandated by the 2015 Energy Transition Law: the national low-carbon strategy outlines the trajectories for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while the PPE sets out, energy source by energy source, the main directions of energy policy in mainland France. ---- The First PPEs ---- Normally, PPEs cover two five-year periods, except for the first, which was intended to cover a period of three years followed by five. It was approved in 2016 by decree for the periods 2016-2018 and 2018-2023. It aimed to reduce energy consumption, increase renewable energy capacity, develop electric vehicles, decrease the share of nuclear power, and move towards a more flexible and resilient energy system. This is the famous limit on nuclear power to 50% of electricity production by 2025, announced by Hollande, which led to the closure of Fessenheim. The Multiannual Energy Program (PPE) is then translated into various implementing decrees (for example, on the energy renovation of buildings or the elimination of single-use plastic bags) and financial resources. Normally, the Environmental Authority, the National Council for Ecological Transition (CNTE), the High Council for Energy (CSE), and the public must be consulted. At the end of 2015, the government published an initial draft; a second was sent for consultation to a monitoring committee in July 2016 and was approved by decree at the end of October.
The second PPE was put under study in 2017, and there was a public debate in 2018. You didn't notice? I don't quite remember either. These are the debates of the National Commission for Public Debate (we discuss them in the article on Newcleo), primarily held online with a few in-person meetings requiring registration. Only those who follow the National Commission for Public Debate are aware of them, so anti-nuclear activists and environmentalists, naturally. But for everyone else, the media doesn't exactly give them much publicity, except to announce that they're over, and sometimes in a short article that they're about to begin. The Commission was updated in January 2020 and set objectives for 2023 and 2028, including the closure of 4 to 6 nuclear reactors.And then Jupiter appeared. This Multiannual Energy Program (PPE) effectively became obsolete in February 2022, when Emmanuel Macron, in his Belfort speech, announced the revival of nuclear power (civilian and military). Well, yeah, why bother respecting the consultation and legitimization processes that the government itself had put in place? So, everything had to be redone to meet the demands of our Sun King.
You've surely noticed that it's 2026, and therefore it's a bit late to set the 2023 targets, and it's high time we had some clarity on those for 2028. Because energy production plants don't spring up overnight. And on the other hand, we tend to consume energy every day. Meanwhile, renewable energy producers are panicking, uncertain about permits, subsidies, aid to households, and so on. As for the nuclear power producer (for now, there's only EDF), the panic is obviously less pronounced. They have the ear of those in power, receive funding, and are kept informed of the foreseeable future. But ultimately, they too would benefit from some certainty. And naturally, with our prime ministers on short-term contracts and Jupiter's petty electoral maneuvering, it doesn't exactly facilitate the passage of legislation.
There was a consultation process that lasted until mid-December 2024, and then we were consulted in March 2025. Yes, really... It's not my fault you didn't bother to participate. Well, actually, it is a little: your favorite monthly magazine never mentioned it. I don't need to spell it out for you to understand what's expected from a debate framed and formatted by those in power, the conclusion of which is known in advance. And besides, this debate is advisory; we know what those in power do with consultations if, by chance, despite all the precautions taken, they turn out not to meet their expectations.
In short, Marc Ferracci[1], after a good two and a half years of waiting, published his decree last February. To appease the parliamentarians, he promised something amusing: a debate without a vote in the National Assembly and the Senate. Why is that amusing? Given that only La France Insoumise (LFI) and the Greens don't present themselves as pro-nuclear, this government doesn't even dare to pass something that parliamentarians would, in theory, support.
This decree is unsurprising: widespread electrification of all uses, a revival of nuclear power (apparently it's a carbon-free energy source!). It's worth noting that the High Council for the Climate and the Environmental Authority, which are hardly eco-terrorists, have issued an unfavorable opinion.
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