The French government announced new measures to promote collective and individual solar self-consumption, approved by the Higher Energy Council on September 8.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister of Transition for Ecology and Solidarity, announced several new measures to support collective and individual solar self-use.
“Our goal is to make sure that these measures work for renewable energy,” Pannier-Runacher told a meeting of the National Economic Affairs Council on Tuesday. The minister also noted that the policy needs to be discussed within the framework of the Energy Climate Act, which has been announced and will come into force in the second quarter of 2023.
“We want to form an integral part of the ecological planning of energy climate law in the accelerated development of renewable energy. The difficulty is that we are also participating in an energy climate discussion that may involve all local communities at the same time,” says Pannier-Runacher. "There is a risk in making the first law and then going back six months later. Given the text and the nature of the measures taken, this debate will need to pass Parliament."
“With regard to solar self-consumption, the minister announced the relevant support measures, which were approved by the French Higher Energy Council on September 8. These measures will promote up-front investment, the price of selling electricity to the grid will also take inflation into account, and Promote collective self-use by the energy community.”