No, France has not reopened any coal-fired power plants for its electricity

More than ever this summer, global warming and ways to limit it were mentioned.

On France Inter, this Tuesday, Olivier Véran was asked about how France is going to lower its greenhouse gas emissions.

“We achieve this by avoiding reopening coal-fired power stations, contrary to what a number of European countries have had to do,” said the new government spokesperson.

It is indeed towards this strategy that many neighboring countries are turning.

By using coal to run their power plants, they hope to compensate for the stoppage of Russian gas deliveries, linked to the war in Ukraine.

“How could we do without coal when so many other developed countries cannot?

“Questioned a user.

Another asked, "Who says we won't have to resort to it soon?"

“Are Internet users right to doubt?

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It is true to say that France has not reopened a power plant that runs on coal.

In order to cope with the fall in the delivery of Russian gas, Austria is going to restart a disused power station.

The coal-fired power stations in the Netherlands, which were previously restricted, can also be fully operated again.

Germany is also concerned since Berlin will use this ember to keep its power plants in operation, which would normally have had to stop.

"It's a bitter observation, but essential to reduce gas consumption", reacted the Ecologist Minister of Economy and Climate, Robert Habeck, last June.

France could, however, change its mind in the coming months, confirming the doubts of some Internet users.

Because what Olivier Véran did not say is that France has recently planned everything to quickly reopen coal-fired power stations, if its electricity production was threatened.

This use of coal is included in the law on purchasing power passed on August 3 in Parliament.

This gives the possibility of maintaining or reactivating, via the raising of the ceiling for greenhouse gas emissions, the last two coal-fired power stations.

That of Cordemais, in Loire-Atlantique, still in operation, and that of Saint-Avold, in Moselle, which closed in March 2022 and which could restart temporarily.

If the bill facilitates the restart of coal-fired power plants, it also creates a derogatory regime to accelerate the supply of gas by a floating LNG terminal, to the chagrin of environmentalists.

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Environmental activists who had already cringed last February.

While Emmanuel Macron had promised to close the last coal-fired power stations by 2022, easily mobilized to produce electricity when needed, but also very emitting CO2 harmful to the climate, a decree published in

relaxed their usage limits temporarily.

The measure "will be strictly limited to the months of January and February 2022" and "does not change the timetable for the closure of coal-fired power plants", assured the Ministry of Ecological Transition at the time.

At present, many French nuclear reactors are shut down for maintenance or due to breakdown.

And the arrival of winter would have every chance of causing the reopening of Saint-Avold, as

explained in March.

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