A parliamentary report denounces "expensive windfall effects" of wind energy whose installations "are at the price + significant additional costs +", wrote Le Figaro on Saturday.
"It is necessary to assess at regular intervals, at what costs and for what benefits are granted aid from public funds or supported by the end consumer", is it written in one of the latest versions of the report led by Patrick Ollier, the chairman of the Assembly's economic affairs committee, quoted by the conservative daily.
"According to the document", writes the daily, "these installations are done at the price + significant additional costs +, in particular by the valuation of the tonne of CO2 avoided: + between 230 and 240 euros per tonne, against 2 euros for insulation thermal + ".
"The deputies stress that + wind power is obviously a good deal." And this despite the fact that the feed-in tariff for wind power in France is one of the lowest in Europe, "continues Le Figaro.
In ten years, the newspaper notes, "the wind power market has grown by 25% per year in the world". "France is in 7th place in cumulative power (4,5 gigawatts) far behind Germany (25,8 GW) but ahead of Great Britain (4 GW)."
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