Margaux Fodéré 06:24, March 19, 2023

To connect wind, solar and charging stations to the electricity grid, the EDF subsidiary will invest €5 billion every year for the next ten years for a total of €100 billion by 2040. Expenses intended, among other things, to support the deployment of renewable energies.

If the energy transition appears necessary to fight against global warming, it should also be very expensive. Between reducing the share of fossil fuels, increasing that of renewable energies but also adapting the electricity grid to new uses, Enedis will have to spend nearly 50 billion euros by 2032. This is in any case what the energy company unveiled last Monday in a preliminary document to its "Network Development Plan".

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The EDF subsidiary will invest €5 billion each year to support the energy transition by 2032. According to Enedis' forecasts, based on RTE's reference scenario for the next energy mix, an additional 12 gigawatts of wind and 30 gigawatts of solar will have to be connected to the grid to support the deployment of renewable energies. And it will also be necessary to support electric mobility, as Hervé Champenois, technical director of Enedis, reminds us.

Funding to be adjusted this summer

"Today we have 800,000 electric vehicles. And under the assumptions that are realized, we could, in ten years, arrive at 13 million electric vehicles. That is to say, many additional means of charging that you can have at home, in highways where you will have to charge much faster with much more power. We also have a lot of requests from hypermarkets who want to equip their car parks with charging stations," he reports.

By 2040, Enedis plans to invest nearly €100 billion. The funding still needs to be adjusted this summer with the new multiannual programming law on energy.