France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035

Socguy shares a report from CleanTechnica: French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech on Tuesday in which he announced a raft of new energy policies, including a promise to close the country's remaining four coal-fired power plants by 2022 and 14 of the country's 900 MW first-generation nuclear reactors by 2035. 'The generation capacity will be replaced with wind and solar,' adds Slashdot reader Socguy. The closure of the 14 nuclear reactors will reduce nuclear's contribution to the energy mix from its current level of 75% to 50% by 2035. 'I would have liked to be able to do it as early as 2025, as provided for by the Energy Transition Law,' Macron added, 'but it turned out, after pragmatic expertise, that this figure brandished as a political totem was in fact unattainable. We therefore decided to maintain this 50% cap, but by postponing the deadline to 2035.'

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