France sets plan to double green share of electricity market
AFP:
France sets plan to double green share of electricity market
“Solar is the big one.”
PARIS (AFP) — France on Monday published details of plans to double the share of renewable sources in its electricity market to meet a 2020 EU objective.
Solar will spearhead the challenge to give renewables a 23-percent share of the electricity mix by 2020, compared with 10.3 percent in 2005, Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said, as he unveiled the 50-point plan.
“Solar is the big one,” said Borloo. “In industrial terms, and in terms of lower industrial costs, it’s there that we have the biggest capacity.”
He contended that solar energy would be competitive with other sources “around 2020.”
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