An engineering firm specializing in wind and photovoltaic projects has filed an appeal with the Council of State against the state for its “refusal” to concretely accelerate the development of renewable energy, sources said Monday.
An appeal filed to advance the cause of renewable energy
The company Eolise, based in Poitiers, had addressed a request last October to the government, listing regulatory measures deemed necessary in particular to accelerate the procedures of authorization of the projects, today slow and complex.
The appeal, filed in February, asks the Council of State to “cancel the implicit refusal to the request” and to enjoin the state to take “all necessary measures” to develop renewable energy, explained to AFP the lawyer of the research department, Me David Deharbe, of Green Law Avocats.
The “climate emergency” requires concrete measures
Eolise proposes 10 measures, including the mandatory communication of the mapping of favorable areas for wind power, public awareness or the limitation of the scope of some suspension-referrals that slow down some projects locally, via the imposition of “climate emergency” or “energy” to accelerate projects.
“The law fails to address concrete and necessary measures”
For Eolise, “the recent vote of the Parliament on the law of acceleration of the renewable energies has acted the inevitable character of these energies in our energy mix”. But “in a context of climate and energy crisis, this law will not allow to develop these energies in France and to reach the objectives envisaged”, estimates the company in a communiqué, judging that “the law makes the impasse on the concrete and indispensable measures”, necessary.
A long legal process ahead
The applicants do not expect an outcome “for at least a year”. The Ministry of Energy Transition declined to comment.
