French MPs adopted on Tuesday by 314 votes against 219 the bill on the energy transition which aims to reduce the share of nuclear power generation 75% 50% 2025 (Reuters).
A wishful vow?
Personally I have a hard time believing it and I do not know how France hopes to get there: 25% of French production is about 140 TWh !! (about 550 TWh of memory production)
Edit: I have good memory: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lect ... _en_France
In 2013, the net electricity production is 550,9 TWh, the nuclear power stations producing 403,7 TWh (73,3%), the 75,7 TWh hydraulic power plants (13,8%), the conventional 44,7 TWh thermal power plants (8,1%), the 15,9 2,9 TWh wind turbine (4,6%), the 0,8 TWh photovoltaic (6,3%) and the other 1,1 TWh ENR (XNUMX%)
A big wind turbine of 3MW (those of 120m of mat!) With an invoice of load of 20%, go 25%, will produce: 3 * 8.7 * 0.25 = 6.5 GWh per year ... in 10 years it would thus be necessary to install: 140 000 / 6.5 = 21 500 wind turbines is close to 6 wind turbines from 3 MW PER DAY! In other words: impossible in 10 years!
While the nuclear 25% will definitely not be replaced by wind turbines! But instead of replacing these 140 TWh nuclear can also decrease, 25 25% remaining%!
So it will also necessarily pass through energy savings through insulation, the ban on electric heating, small gestures ... etc etc ...
That would make it possible to be and moreover more durable too! For better a kWh saved than a nuclear kWh replaced by a fossil kWh and even wind!
In any case I fear the announcement effect ...
The vote of a law is good ... but wait for the decree of application (edf is watching!)