400 MW for 2020 that appears totally aberrant

After more than five months of waiting, the Government published regulations for photovoltaic electricity prices in the first quarter. Taking note of the fall in the price of panels, the Government has proposed a new scale of prices downward, that many professionals of the sector demanded the long time, whereas too much state support. On the other hand, the bad news was that in the fight against what the Minister presented as "a bubble", he had helped to create, he proposed a retroactive application of the ministerial orders.

This publication was the subject of criticism from professionals in the sector, not not so much on the decline but on the fact that a Government publishes in March 2010 the orders calling into question of applications filed in 2009. Anxious to defend its interests, 100 individuals and professionals commenced charge or litigation proceedings. Particular, the companies of the Casino group assigned EDF from the tribunal de commerce of Paris and foiled the first caltrop posed by the Government, who wished that this litigation be brought to the tribunal. The tribunal does not followed him, at least in the first instance.

To strengthen its position in a battle which is very bad, the Government has drafted two amendments to the Grenelle II. The first specifies the legal character of a part of the arrêtés confirming ipso facto the current illegality. Worse, the Government established under article 33 a paragraph stipulating that contracts for the purchase obligation fell within the administrative framework and non-commercial. In doing so, it goes against res judicata and the risk to make the law unconstitutional. If no one is supposed to ignore the law, any law retroactive and contrary to res judicata surplus is readily unconstitutional.

Ultimately, the Government is therefore endangering the contents of the round table to prevent 3,000 MW photovoltaic power presented as restrict online Half of the power that the Germany will be online this year at the price, it is true, an assumed increase in the price of electricity. This yardstick, this is the objective of the Government of 5.400 MW for 2020 that appears totally aberrant.

The coup of battering against emerging photovoltaic connection doubles as a section 34 which puts wind under the snuffer. While the French regulation for wind energy is already the most restrictive in Europe, the constraints arising from section 34 are that it is unlikely to expect our European objectives of 23 renewable energy by 2020. After 160 MW installed in 2008 and 980 MW in 2009, this is a result more than 50 lower expected the profession for 2010. Poor result for legislation that purports to assist in the development of a die.

Worse, alas, are a considerable job losses arising from these decisions. While the Germany created 100,000 jobs in the wind and solar sectors in ten years, the France it was created only 12,000. Horizon 2020, the decisions contained in the Grenelle II Act will be grow the France-Germany differential at more than 250,000 jobs. Within ten years, these are indeed more than 300,000 people working in these sectors across the Rhine. It is three times more than the current number of employees of EDF in France.

While the France was the first country in Europe to have a thermo-solaire plant and one of the first to industrially produce solar panels, the delay during these last two decades on renewable electricity generation technologies is enormous. The simple retrofit of this delay requires a change of considerable scale. It is illusory to hope to get there without impact the price of electricity for the final customer. Force is to see that our members have not liked it and that the Grenelle II Act will allow our European objectives or to prepare our industrial tool for tomorrow's challenges.