French Senators ask for focus on heating energy over
electricity
London (Platts)--6Jul2006
A report by two French Senators published Wednesday recommends that
France aims to produce 50% of its heating needs from renewable energy "within
a generation."
Claude Belot and Jean-Marc Juilhard said local governments should
prioritize solutions to heating energy over electricity needs, since
electricity already holds a firm stance in the French energy agenda.
"Heating represents the largest energy need in France. Heating is
currently covered 80% by fossil fuels which weakens our country economically
and geopolitically as well as having a detrimental effect on the climate. We
must be wary of an electro-centric attitude," the report said.
More should be done to research alternative energies for heating needs
and users should be better educated over how to cut energy consumption, the
ministers said.
If the French Senate was to agree to the targets, the National Assembly
(the lower house) would also have to vote in favor for the targets to be made
legal.
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