ENERGY TRANSITION. IN FRANCE, THE POWER LIES WITH THE MAYORS
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Editorial, 9 May 2024.
Italy and France belong to the EU, and yet, the EU dictate on energy transition has translated into opposing political actions that, while in France recognise the maximum decision-making power to Local Institutions, in Italy they see the same power centralised in Rome, depriving regions and municipalities of the inalienable right to decide where to install plants (wind/photovoltaic), how many to install and with what capacity.
From the French government, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, head of the Ministère de la Transition ènergètique, from Paris, on 2 June 2023, had sent a communication to mayors recognising their central and decisive role in the authorisation process for ‘renewable energy’ plants.
By MINISTÈRE DE LA TRANSITION ÉNERGÉTIQUE
Paris, 2 June 2023.
To the Mayors
Madame Mayor, Mr Mayor, List of Addressees In Fine In the face of the climate and energy crisis, the road map assigned to me by the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister is clear: achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and make France the first major industrial country in the world to abandon fossil fuels.
To achieve this goal, the government's energy transition strategy is based on four inseparable pillars: sobriety and energy efficiency on the one hand, the development of renewable energies and the revival of nuclear power on the other.
You, the local elected representatives, are at the heart of this
