Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022 edition - Flipbook - Page 66
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France
The law relating to energy and climate dated
November 20196 added a specific goal for
electricity produced by OWF in the Energy
Code, which is to “foster production of
electricity coming from offshore wind plants,
in order to progressively push up the pace of
award of installed capacities for the
production coming from tenders to 1
gigawatt per year by 2024”.7
A multi-annual energy plan (MAEP – in
French, the programmation pluriannuelle de
l’énergie – PPE), establishes the priorities
for government action regarding energy
policy for the metropolitan part of the
country for the next decade, shared in two
five-year periods.8
The MAEP for the 2019-2023 and 20242028 periods adopted on 21 April 2020
stipulates a calendar of call for tenders for
the award of offshore wind capacities taking
into account the aims of the abovementioned law.9
This calendar states, concerning fixed OWF
projects, that between 500 and 1000 MW of
new projects will be attributed in 2021 or
2022 (the current plan is to attribute this
capacity at the end of the year 2022),with a
maximum of 60 Euro per MWh, and one
project of 1 GW will be attributed per year as
of 2023 (fixed or floating OWF, depending
on prices and fields).
More broadly, the French President has very
recently displayed a higher ambition for the
development of offshore wind farms in
France, announcing on 10 February 2022 its
will to have around 50 offshore wind farms
in operation with a total capacity of around
40 GW in 2050.
6
Law n° 2019-1147 dated 8 November 2019 relating to energy and climate.
7
Article L.100-4 4°ter of the Energy Code.
8
According to article L.141-1 and following of the Energy Code. There are also specific MAEPs for French non-metropolitan areas.
9
Decree n°2020-456 dated 21 April 2020.An English version of the synthesis of the MAEP project is available online: https://www.
ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/ PPE-Executive %20summary.pdf.