L R AS Published on Sunday 17 January 2021 - n° 346 - Categories:minister-regulation
Installation of the National Hydrogen Council
Installation of the National Hydrogen Council
https://tecsol.blogs.com/mon_weblog/2021/01/installation-du-conseil-national-de-lhydrog%C3%A8ne.html
Tecsol of 11 January 2021
L R AS Published on Saturday 9 January 2021 - n° 345 - Categories:minister-regulation
CRE publishes two draft decisions concerning TURPE 6
The Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) publishes two draft decisions concerning the tariff for the use of electricity networks (TURPE 6) applicable to the transmission (RTE) and distribution (Enedis) of energy. They are sent to the High Council for Energy for its opinion.
L R AS Published on Saturday 9 January 2021 - n° 345 - Categories:minister-regulation
Result of the call for tenders 3rd period CRE4 innovation and CRE4 storage in ZNI
On 22 December, the Ministry of Ecological Transition published the results of the CRE4 3rd period - PV Innovation call for tenders and the results of the call for tenders with storage in ZNI.
The 3rd period of the AO Innovation: 47 projects
L R AS Published on Saturday 9 January 2021 - n° 345 - Categories:minister-regulation
The reduction in feed-in tariffs before 2011, validated but supervised by the Constitutional Council
On 28 December, the Constitutional Council approved the draft Finance Law for 2021. It validated the reduction in feed-in tariffs for 2006-2010 contracts. This concerns solar power plants of more than 250 kW. This revision of tariffs is located in article 54 sexies.
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Lawyer Le Chatelier from Adaltys has analysed article 225 of the 2021 Finance Law.
L R AS Published on Sunday 13 December 2020 - n° 344 - Categories:minister-regulation
Start of distribution of the French government's recovery plans
The government's recovery plan is beginning to have a concrete impact on industrial projects geared towards ecological transition. From
L R AS Published on Sunday 13 December 2020 - n° 344 - Categories:minister-regulation
Senate rejects pre-2011 revision of feed-in tariffs
On 27 November, the Senate unanimously rejected the amendment providing for a revision of feed-in tariffs for installations of more than 250 kW signed before 2011.
Above all, the Senate has
L R AS Published on Sunday 13 December 2020 - n° 344 - Categories:minister-regulation
In the third quarter, France connected 287 MW (= 3rd quarter 2019).
In the third quarter, France connected approximately 287 MW, i.e. 60% more than in the second quarter, which was marked by the shutdown related to the containment, according to FranceTerritoire Solaire. (Editor's note One year ago, the installations had reached 280 MW. This means that they are stagnating from one year to the next.).
The connections
L R AS Published on Saturday 12 December 2020 - n° 344 - Categories:minister-regulation, other France
Who benefits from crime? This is the only question the police ask themselves!
Wind and solar energy professionals are increasingly facing opposition from the population, but also from elected representatives against wind turbines accused of being unsightly, noisy and harmful to birds. RES Group's Director of Public Affairs,
L R AS Published on Saturday 21 November 2020 - n° 341 - Categories:minister-regulation
Tariff revision (continued)
On 18 November, the Senate Finance Committee rejected the amendment.
AS Published on Friday 20 November 2020 - n° 341 - Categories:minister-regulation
Will the Council of State monitor climate laws?
The Paris agreement of 12 December 2015 provided for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in France by 2030. Our country has even been zealous
L R AS Published on Friday 20 November 2020 - n° 341 - Categories:minister-regulation
Will the operation of nuclear reactors be authorised by the public?
The Ministry of Ecological Transition is launching a consultation on a draft decree that will govern the operating licences of nuclear reactors with more than
AS Published on Sunday 15 November 2020 - n° 340 - Categories:minister-regulation
The Senate's Economic Affairs Committee takes stock of RE measures
One year after the entry into force of the "Energy-Climate" law, the Senate's economic affairs committee notes that 65,000 Ma Prime Renov' schemes (out of the 200,000 planned) have been distributed,
L R AS Published on Saturday 14 November 2020 - n° 340 - Categories:minister-regulation
Continuation of the pre-2011 contract schedule
On November 13, MPs voted on the amendment introduced by the government on Saturday, November 7. It approves the retroactive revision of solar purchase contracts prior to 2011. Enerplan denounces the government's unilateral, retroactive and totally unacceptable questioning of a contract.
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The Minister of Ecological Transition states that "the revision of tariffs will be targeted and fair. It is a question of going back on a small minority of contracts that concern installations that have already been depreciated, which have benefited from a return on capital that sometimes exceeds 20% at the taxpayer's expense".
"If we do nothing (...), the taxpayer will have to pay more than 20 billion euros in 10 years time to pay for all these contracts, whereas fewer subsidies would make it possible to maintain the same production of renewable energy by remunerating the producers in a normal way".
Editor's note It cannot be judged whether the Minister's assertion (excessive return on depreciated facilities) is justified. We do not know the status of the contracts in question, nor their holders. It is easy to understand that if the contracts are golden, their holders want to maintain them. Is this normal?
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The association (Solidarité Renouvelables) was created to combat this amendment. It would bring together 300 business leaders, local elected officials and association presidents. It believes that the negotiation process, operator by operator, will mobilise a considerable amount of time from the administration and the companies concerned, for a result that the government no longer quantifies.
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Finergreen indicates that it has already noted a deferral or halt in transactions in progress. The players are waiting to see what will happen. The 850 installations concerned still have bank debts corresponding to their construction. Everyone fears that the power plant holders will no longer be able to repay their loans, that the banks, which would have 5 to 6 billion outstanding on these power plants, will seize them and sell them at a discount. It is feared that the credit institutions will tighten the credit conditions on the new operations in order to better protect themselves against a possible new challenge by the State.
The risk is that the launch of the hydrogen plan will suffer the same fate: the price of hydrogen should be divided by ten in the future, exactly the same as the evolution of photovoltaic between 2010 and 2020. This should dampen the ardour of hydrogen investors.
Editor's note One can always shake up the worst, which is never safe. The defence of categorical interests always hides behind beautiful feelings.
AS Published on Monday 9 November 2020 - n° 339 - Categories:minister-regulation
CRE welcomes the results of self-consumption (CRE 4.8)
In the publication of the winners of the self-consumption call for tenders, 31 projects were awarded prizes for a power
AS Published on Monday 9 November 2020 - n° 339 - Categories:minister-regulation
Finergreen has studied the RCE 4.8 call for tenders.
Finergreen studied the CRE 4.8 tender. It is still as judicious and complete as ever