The bill on France’s energy sovereignty that French energy minister will present to Parliament will put an end to French dependence on fossil fuels, by reducing their share of their energy consumption to 40% instead of the current 60%.
France has started study on an order of 8 additional EPR2 1775MW nuclear reactors on top of the 6 ordered plus 8 in option ”seccured”.
Negociation will take place between membre of Parliament and Nuclear Safety Agency
22 EPR2 nuclear reactors or 40GW to build by 2050.
Quote:
> *”Fossil fuels account for over 60% of the energy we consume. My ambition is to reduce this figure to 40% by 2035. To reduce our CO2 emissions and protect the purchasing power of the French, but also to gain sovereignty. The invasion of Ukraine has reminded us how important it is to protect ourselves from geopolitical hazards, at a time when energy has become a weapon of war. The text thus sets ambitious targets for the deployment of decarbonized means of production (nuclear and renewable).”*
The person speaking is from Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the French minister for energy transition. If anything it’s disappointing that the goal for 2035 is only 60% low-carbon / renewable.
Good luck in the future cooling those NPPs in the summertime.
I don’t know much about it, but can’t you just take out the reactors fromt the old buildings and put a new one into it? Or does it have to be a completly new reactor site by default for some security reason?
Mashallah Germany is exploding hahahah
r/germany r/de in sweats
In a future where more electricity will be needed to power EVs and existing industry/heat needs to decarbonize…investing in clean baseload nuclear energy is simply smart (along with more renewables for a total mix of energy). 👍
We even need more if we want to match the electrification plans of the economy (eFuels, EVs, etc). We will never be able to match all these need with just replacing current energy output.
Thorium reactors, anyone?
I watched one video about them, so naturally I’m an expert.
Sommer droughts say no.
‘damn you can earn so much money exporting energy to germany’ – the french gov
I hope they go for it. The industry needs scale
That’s a great news… France in many ways is what i wish Italy could have been.
Macron is only good at making promises.
He said he would help France be independent from fossil fuels (60% of the energy they consume) by investing in building’s renovation but the progress is slow.
Nuclear reactors are his new promise but after 2027 he will be gone and it will be the next president’s job to make real difficult decisions (starting to use a lot less energy, change the public transportation, invest massively in renewable energy).
Smartest energy plan in the world. Nuclear, and also renewables.
Do they have enough water to cool them down? I heard that was an issue with the current ones. I would imagine these would be far more advanced.
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The bill on France’s energy sovereignty that French energy minister will present to Parliament will put an end to French dependence on fossil fuels, by reducing their share of their energy consumption to 40% instead of the current 60%.
France has started study on an order of 8 additional EPR2 1775MW nuclear reactors on top of the 6 ordered plus 8 in option ”seccured”.
Negociation will take place between membre of Parliament and Nuclear Safety Agency
22 EPR2 nuclear reactors or 40GW to build by 2050.
Quote:
> *”Fossil fuels account for over 60% of the energy we consume. My ambition is to reduce this figure to 40% by 2035. To reduce our CO2 emissions and protect the purchasing power of the French, but also to gain sovereignty. The invasion of Ukraine has reminded us how important it is to protect ourselves from geopolitical hazards, at a time when energy has become a weapon of war. The text thus sets ambitious targets for the deployment of decarbonized means of production (nuclear and renewable).”*
The person speaking is from Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the French minister for energy transition. If anything it’s disappointing that the goal for 2035 is only 60% low-carbon / renewable.
Good luck in the future cooling those NPPs in the summertime.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/22/we-cant-escape-the-reality-france-is-preparing-for-4c-of-warming-by-2100
Nice. Now if only other countries followed.
What a waste of French tax payer money.
I don’t know much about it, but can’t you just take out the reactors fromt the old buildings and put a new one into it? Or does it have to be a completly new reactor site by default for some security reason?
Mashallah Germany is exploding hahahah
r/germany r/de in sweats
In a future where more electricity will be needed to power EVs and existing industry/heat needs to decarbonize…investing in clean baseload nuclear energy is simply smart (along with more renewables for a total mix of energy). 👍
We even need more if we want to match the electrification plans of the economy (eFuels, EVs, etc). We will never be able to match all these need with just replacing current energy output.
Thorium reactors, anyone?
I watched one video about them, so naturally I’m an expert.
Sommer droughts say no.
‘damn you can earn so much money exporting energy to germany’ – the french gov
I hope they go for it. The industry needs scale
That’s a great news… France in many ways is what i wish Italy could have been.
Macron is only good at making promises.
He said he would help France be independent from fossil fuels (60% of the energy they consume) by investing in building’s renovation but the progress is slow.
Nuclear reactors are his new promise but after 2027 he will be gone and it will be the next president’s job to make real difficult decisions (starting to use a lot less energy, change the public transportation, invest massively in renewable energy).
Smartest energy plan in the world. Nuclear, and also renewables.
Do they have enough water to cool them down? I heard that was an issue with the current ones. I would imagine these would be far more advanced.