From the GWPF: French Socialists Follow Germany, Shift Away From Nuclear To Renewables
Via Agency France-Press: France on Wednesday unveiled a much-anticipated bill to reduce the country’s dependency on nuclear energy and fossil fuels, after months of intense debate over one of the Socialist government’s pet projects. Experts estimate it will cost the country between 15 and 30 billion euros in investments every year until the so-called “energy transition” is completed.
The planned law, presented to the cabinet by energy and environment minister Segolene Royal, seeks to make France a greener country and reduce the nation’s energy bill.
The bill is a chance “to develop new technologies, clean transport, energy efficiency and therefore to improve companies’ competitiveness,” Royal told reporters after the cabinet meeting.
It aims to cut the country’s final energy consumption in half by 2050 and reduce the use of fossil fuels by 30 percent by 2030, in comparison with 2012 when Francois Hollande was elected president.
It also looks to reduce France’s huge dependency on nuclear energy for electricity from 75 percent to 50 percent — one of Hollande’s campaign promises — and to increase the use of renewables.
The bill lays out scores of measures including an obligation to make buildings and houses more energy efficient during renovations and installing seven million charging stations for electric cars over the next 15 years.
The bill, which still has to go through a long parliamentary process, was the subject of an intense nine-month debate as companies, NGOs, lawmakers and unions each fought their corners.
Experts estimate it will cost the country between 15 and 30 billion euros in investments every year until the so-called “energy transition” is completed.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-17/danish-power-plant-closing-may-narrow-price-discount-to-germany.html
Coal fired power plant closed on Denmark — Wind Produced TWh increased — ERGO
regardless of reason (economics, politics, etc) — Windpower TWh production replaced Thermal TWh electricity production that had been produced by the Dong Energy 670-megawatt Enstedvaerket-3 coal-fed power plant in Aabenra, southern Jutland, Denmark,
Sorry Richard — but you are mistaken.
KArl Heuer:
Your post at June 28, 2014 at 7:50 am is either deliberately disingenuous or plain daft. It is certainly very wrong. It says in total
Sorry, Karl, but I am NOT “mistaken” and you are spouting falsehood.
Your link says.
In my post you claim to be answering I wrote to you saying
Your link says that IMPORTS replaced a Danish power station: windfarms did not.
And your “Ergo” is a non sequiter because – as I have repeatedly explained to you – windfarms only displace power stations off the grid when the wind is strong enough but not too strong. Windpower has not replaced any thermal power station anywhere, and it cannot because intermittent wind requires continuous backup. Windfarms only exist to farm subsidies and a grid supply system only obtains problems from their use.
Richard
Less TWh produced by Thermal Domestically by Denmark, More TWh produced by Wind domestically by Denmark — means that domestic wind generation replaced a domestic thermal generation shortfall caused by a closed thermal station.
The FACT that Danish Domestic electricity production cannot meet total Danish demand and requires imports does not mean what you say — the imported electricity could just as well be stated to be due to a lack of NEW nuclear construction or a lack of new thermal plant construction.
The fact remains — a domestic thermal plant closed and overal DOMESTIC Danish thermal TWh decreased — Wind Installation increased as Domestic wind provided TWh production increased — my ERGO is correct — you sir are disingenuous.
I falsified your claim that — no wind power has replaced thermal power.
Lastly — lets go to maths — even using your import argument — over the years in my previous post there was a shortfall of 12.5TWH in thermal TWh production, and a net increase of 12.1 TWh in imports — leaving a net 0.4 TWh difference between domestic and imports
As the only source of increasing TWH production was Wind — 0.4 TWh of wind production supplanted thermal production — at the very least — even assuming that all of the 12.1TWh change in net imports was entirely thermal in nature
Karl Heuer:
At June 30, 2014 at 8:39 am you state this blatant falsehood to me
NO! You did not!
You cited an example of a thermal power station that was replaced by imports and you linked to a report which said it was replaced by imports. The imported electricity which replaced the power station was NOT windpower.
Windpower has not replaced any thermal power station anywhere, and it cannot because intermittent wind requires continuous backup. Windfarms only exist to farm subsidies and a grid supply system only obtains problems from their use.
Richard