French Plan 5-Year Wind Boom
France sets out ten-point plan to double wind power capacity by 2023
Bate Felix (w/Sudip Kar-Gupta), January 18, 2018 (Reuters)
“…The Macron government just announced a ten-point plan which will simplify administrative appeal procedures and accelerate the development of French wind power projects] in order to double its installed generation capacity by 2023…[T]he proposed reforms will cut in half the average time it takes for wind power projects to be completed and connected to the French electricity grid…If successful, it could counter long-running opposition from activists who have frustrated the country’s attempts to reach renewable energy targets, which include aiming to have up to 26 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind generation capacity by 2023…French activists opposed to wind farms have been systematically filing appeals against wind projects through administrative courts. Those courts take years to hear cases…Some 70 percent of authorized projects are facing appeals…” click here for more
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