It must submit the dynamism in its energy model

In France, it is well known, there is no oil but there ideas. In fact, rather an idea, the same forty years, well entrenched: nuclear power. Then, inevitably, when renewable energies are beginning to become an energy and economic reality, to compete with the Canadiens Atom, load is high and the arguments as light as a drum of radioactive waste. After the sequence "wind disfigures the landscape", here comes the time of the rengaine "solar strike the household budget. The Minister of the Budget daring to declare that the historical increase in the price of electricity is the impact of the Grenelle of the environment and the commitment of the President of the Republic on the ecological Pact of Nicolas Hulot: the rarely-seen in terms of manipulation! Solar electricity costs actually about what a euro per household in 2010.

These attacks on renewable energy beyond the speech. Contrary to the promises of ecological revolution, they translate into actions: decline to purchase rates, decrease in sustainable development tax credit, wind turbines subject to the same legal regime that plants the most polluantes The Government reform on the sly, without consultation with stakeholders in the market for renewable energy. When barriers to renewable sources accumulate and when regulatory instability becomes the norm, investors are rare. Consequence: the France will not respect its commitment to Europe for 21 of its electricity from renewable sources by the end of this year.

In doing so, the France does not take lagging in its efforts for the preservation of the environment and the fight against pollution. It deprives is also a pool of hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next decade. In Germany and Spain, these are respectively 300,000 and 200,000 people working in the renewable sector. And this is only a beginning. The France may also close the doors of a huge market for our industries: in 2009, renewable energy accounted for 60 of new capacity installed in Europe.

Why the French debate on renewable sources is so biased Because the France is bogged down in an energy culture which rotates in a circle, which waives economic dynamism, which is more open to the world and in particular on its European partners. In France, when we say responsible for energy, it ought to be skeptical on renewable sources. It must list the challenges that they represent, as also of "problems", and must ignore existing solutions. Moreover, it is for energy savings. When we say responsible, must be heavy, of seriously. Need of nuclear energy.

Yet, the nuclear industry, such as weapons, does not have to justify its economic rationality or any profitability. The floor of State is hardly questionable, the opacity is permanent. In these circumstances, it is appropriate to put on the back of the renewable electricity price increases. And to release thus EDF and the State of their errors of industrial strategy, that it is risky investments in Britain the skid of the Flamanville: two years of delay and cost EUR 2 billion. In this perspective, it is easy to hide the potentially astronomical cost of the dismantling of nuclear power plants. Estimated to be only a few tens of billions of euros in France, on the other hand are more than 100 billion are planned for the dismantling of a lower number of large-Bretagne reactors The France seem the cost of his strategic failures

For thirty years, ecologists seek public debate calm and thorough energy choices and their consequences. This debate is still current: as evidenced by the comments of Minister François Baroin, France a cultural revolution needs energy. It must call into question its dogmas, richer experiences of its partners. It must submit the dynamism in its energy model. So finally, in France, have serious air does not always support nuclear power, wind, Sun and tides.