Macron Announces New Policy for French Nuclear Sector
Last week, President Emmanuel Macron introduced a new energy policy for France, stating that the policy’s primary objective was to increase the country’s production capacity for carbon-free energy and decrease its energy consumption. Macron stated that the country needed to produce more carbon-free electricity in the coming decades because even if it decreased its consumption of energy by 40%, the exit from gas and oil in the short term implied that it would replace a portion of the fossil fuel consumption with electricity. This, he said, was why France needed to be able to produce at least 60% more electricity…