🚨️ The electricity industry is urging the government to publish the energy program “without delay”

Paris, July 17, 2025 (AFP) - Twenty unions and professional electricity federations are maintaining pressure on the government by calling on it to publish “without delay” the decree setting out the roadmap for France's energy future, a text that is already two years late.

The publication of the Multiannual Energy Programme (PPE) is highly anticipated by energy players to launch calls for tenders, especially in offshore wind power, secure investments, anticipate training and employment needs, predict infrastructure...

“Such a strong signal would offer the essential visibility to industrial actors”, underline in an open letter some twenty professional federations including the French Electricity Union, the Renewable Energy Syndicate, the Solar Energy Syndicate Enerplan, the Solar Energy Syndicate Enerplan, the Federation of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Industries (Fieec)...

“Faced with the contradictory messages sent in recent weeks, in particular on the role of renewable energies (...), the publication of the PPE decree would remind everyone of the complementarity between nuclear and renewable electric energies and would send a strong signal of confidence to the sectors”, write the signatories.

The latter no longer wish to wait for this text while new threats of censorship hang over the government, after the announcement of its first budget guidelines on Tuesday.

On July 8, the Senate again approved a law on France's energy future, enshrining a massive relaunch of nuclear power, and supposed to help the executive finalize its multi-year energy programming decree “before the end of summer”, as announced by Prime Minister François Bayrou.

The law must now return to the National Assembly at the end of September, where the inaugural debates on this text were already very chaotic, leading to its rejection at the first reading at the end of June, after an attempt by the RN and the right to impose a moratorium on new renewable installations.

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