🚨️ A public debate starting in September on the electricity network of tomorrow

Paris, July 24, 2025 (AFP) - The modernization of the French electricity network and its infrastructures will be the subject of a public debate organized in France for more than four months starting on September 4, the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP) announced on Thursday.

The debate will run until January 14, 2026.

The public is invited to express their views on the “10-year network development plan” planned by RTE, the French operator of high-voltage lines.

The electricity transmission network in France is in fact facing challenges: aging of infrastructures built mainly in the 1970s and 1980s, adaptation to climate change (floods, storms, fires, etc.), evolution of energy production and consumption methods, reindustrialization of the country, energy transition objectives.

The Modernization Plan defined by RTE provides for more than 90 billion euros in investment over 15 years, in a carbon neutrality scenario.

“How can we adapt our network to energy, climate and territorial challenges? is the question that the debate will ask”, underlines the CNDP: why a pattern of such magnitude? what are the conditions for doing so? What environmental and landscape issues? etc.

To allow the broadest mobilization, events will be planned in person (meetings, forums, citizen workshops...) and online (webinars, interactive mapping, quizzes, participatory platform...).

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