“What are we going to do between now and 2027? We still have two coal plants, Cordemais (west) and Saint Avoid (east), and we are going to completely convert them to biomass,” said Macron, re-elected in 2022 for five years.
Macron had already promised to abandon coal, but the Saint Avoid plant, closed at the beginning of 2022, was reopened in winter to produce electricity in a context of supply problems.
The president must reveal on Monday the “course” of his ecological plan that seeks to go “twice as fast” to respect his commitments to reduce greenhouse gases by 2030.
Although on the international scene he advocates the exit from fossil energies and green finance, the French head of state usually defends “an ecology of progress and solutions” and “non-punitive”,
Regarding gas heating, Macron specified this Sunday that he will not prohibit it so as not to leave people living in “the most rural areas without a solution”, but he advocated helping the installation of “heat pumps.”
To abandon fossil energies in the framework of the fight against climate change, France is committed to the development of the nuclear sector, its main source of electricity, and renewables.
But, in a context of rising energy prices after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, its government has been forced to look for solutions to limit the rise in fuel prices.
Macron thus announced a new aid of 100 euros ($106) per vehicle per year for the most modest “workers”, after giving up allowing gas stations to sell fuel at a loss due to their rejection. He now asked that it be sold at cost price.