French MPs on Tuesday moved ahead with a law to speed up the deployment of renewable energy, as the country’s nuclear plants were hit by maintenance and corrosion problems and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused energy costs to surge.
Having secured rare support from the left, President Emmanuel Macron’s minority administration moves a step closer to lowering obstacles to build new solar and wind plants, including massive offshore wind farms.
Currently, only 19.3% of France’s energy consumption is sourced from renewables, short of the 23% objective Macron’s government set in 2020.