How many nuclear, wind turbines and solar panels? How many electric cars? How to adapt to repeated floods? After months of delay and just before COP29 in Baku, France presented, this Monday, November 4, its roadmaps for energy and climate between now and 2030 and 2050. The High Council for the Climate ( HCC) has repeatedly urged the government, in the spring and then more recently, to adopt these texts to provide “visibility”.
Reduce gross greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030
France has confirmed its objective of reducing its gross greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 compared to 1990, while remaining on course to significantly reduce the share of fossil fuels in its final consumption by 2030. , announced the Ministry of Ecological Transition this Monday.
The share of fossils (oil, gas, etc.) will increase in final consumption from 60% in 2022 to 42% in 2030, according to the Multi-Annual Energy Program (PPE), a roadmap for French energy policy over ten years. to come, and the National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC), which confirm the launch of a program to build new generation nuclear reactors (EPR2) and a strong increase in renewable energy capacities. France will have to reduce the share of fossil energy in its consumption from 60% in 2022 to 42% in 2030 (government)
Two thirds of electric car sales and 15% of the vehicle fleet by 2030
The government has set a sales target of two thirds of electric cars by 2030. It has also set the target of having 15% electric cars in the country’s rolling stock by the end of the decade, compared to 2.2% at the start of 2024. In October, sales of electric cars represented 15% of the total in France, down year-on-year.
Renovation of 400,000 houses and 200,000 collective housing units per year by 2030
France will have to “renovate 400,000 individual houses and 200,000 collective housing units each year on average by 2030” to achieve its climate objectives of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.
The building sector, which reduced its CO2 emissions by 5.5% between July 2023 and June 2024, should in total reduce its emissions to 35 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year in 2030 compared to 62 Mt in 2022 and 93 Mt in 1990, the reference year, to achieve national objectives, indicate the modeling documents presented this Monday by sector of activity.
Maintaining the current pace of development of onshore wind power
France has confirmed its desire to install 1.5 GW of additional onshore wind power each year, “i.e. maintaining the current rate of development”. This rate would enable the doubling of the current fleet by 2035, to 40 GW of installed power compared to 21 GW in 2022. The government also lifted the veil on October 18 on the offshore wind deployment map: around fifty Wind farms are planned on all the maritime coasts of France, to reach 18 GW of installed capacity in 2035 and 45 GW in 2050. Against only 1.5 GW currently.