According to the estimates presented by the Power Syndicate France Energie Eolienne, renewable energies should save or pay the state finances 14.4 billion euros.
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Renewable energies cost the state money. Too much, according to their detractors. But, when market prices panic, they can also report. Wind turbines and solar panels in the country should save or pay national finances 14.4 billion euros. At least, according to the estimates presented by the employer union France Energie Eolienne (FEE), on April 12, between the two towers of the presidential election.
“The State first invested in the support of assets through the guaranteed purchase rates or the supplements of remuneration, recalls Michel Gioria, general delegate of Fee. Now, this system makes it possible to redistribute the fruits from the energy transition to the population. “
The supplements of remuneration supplements are indicated from a predetermined price. If the market rates pass far beyond the fixed rate, the producers then have to donate the overpayment. Or 3.3 billion euros for 2021, and 5.1 billion expected for 2022. In addition, there are revenues: 6 billion euros net, including 3.7 supplied by wind power alone.
For the first quarter of 2022, the average price of electricity on the market was around 231 euros per megawatt hour, indicates Fee, against 108 euros in 2021, and 50 euros on average in 2020 before the crisis due to COVVI-19 . However, “in recent years, renewable energies have become increasingly competitive, making it possible to significantly lower the guaranteed rate, of the order of 60 euros per megawatt hour for recent wind or photovoltaic tenders on the ground “, Specifies the Ministry of Ecological Transition, contacted by Le Monde.
“When the State allows a wind farm today, it earns money. This trend should last at least two years, but its evolution is then more difficult to predict,” said Nicolas Goldberg, Referent Energy For the consulting firm Columbus Consulting.
pleading for his sector, Michel Gioria believes that “the delay on the development of renewable energies deprives the state of revenue”. Wind turbines and photovoltaics, whose large quantity storage remains to be invented, produced 7 % and 2.7 % of French electricity respectively in 2021. Far behind nuclear (69 %), but also behind hydraulic dams (12 %).
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