[en] This document proposes a brief presentation of a book which aims at giving directions to implement energy saving strategies and energy transition. The authors describe experiments in the field of positive energy building, car pooling, wood-energy, electricity saving, renewable energies, building renewal in different French regions. They highlight problems associated with oil, climate warming, nuclear energy, and then outline how nuclear and renewable energies can be used and the importance of energy saving. They propose a scenario for transition and discuss its benefits

[en] This press release gives an overview of the peak electricity consumption problem in France which is mainly related to electrical heating and may induce a failure of the electric system in case of a cold spell. It identifies what is at stake with this peak for the electrical system, comments the increase of the record peak and of the consumed power since 1981, and outlines the worrying development of electrical heating. It also identifies who are the losers and the winners with this peak, comments the attitude and role of public authorities, and discusses the wrong good ideas and the real solutions to mitigate this problem

[en] For ten years, the Negawatt association has taken a fresh look at our ways of consuming and producing energy. After the realisation of its 2011 scenario, the association has wished to complete this work with a reflexion full of ideas and operational measures and addressed to all citizens and to decision-makers. This manifesto describes with pedagogy and lucidity a possible and desirable path to get out of our energy and climate crises. Contents: 1 - Energy in crisis; 2 - Energy in its all forms; 3 - From the approach to the scenario: preparing the energy transition; 4 - Buildings and energy transition; 5 - Key-sectors of the transition: transports, industry and agriculture; 6 - Advent of renewable energies; 7 - From the nuclear twilight to the renewable dawn; 8 - Costs and benefits of the energy transition; 9 - The 'true value' of energy; 10 - From the status time to the action one. A series of 26 graphs summarizes the Negawatt approach. (J.S.)

[en] A first part presents the negaWatt approach (the name 'negaWatt' means an approach based on a non consumed energy) in terms of energy saving, energy efficiency, and renewable energies. It presents a scenario for the 2000-2050 period with its general hypotheses, and a reference trend-based scenario. It highlights how electric power is addressed by the scenario (production of renewable and non-renewable power) and presents and comments the main results with a comparison with the trend-based scenario. It does the same for mobility and for heat production (present situation and trend, scenario results). It outlines possible changes induced in France by a policy aiming at energy saving and efficiency. It more particularly outlines the benefits of this scenario in terms of risk reduction, no dead end, economic and social benefits, and ethics. Then, several sheets are proposed with, for each of them data and comments about the objective of the negaWatt associated measure, the context, the energy stake, various aspects of implementation, costs, impact on jobs, financing, interest, possible brakes, and a set of decisions asked to public authorities. These sheets deal with mobility, performance of electric appliances, energy saving in the building sector, the case of buildings built prior to 1975, the emergence of new relationships between communities and actors of the energy sector. A second document presents the scenario as a manifesto, with 23 structural, regulatory, financial, transport-related, building-related, electric appliance-related, renewable-related, heat-network-related and co-generation-related propositions.

[en] This publication briefly outlines that a 100 pc renewable energy mix is a technically reliable solution, that renewable energies are competitive, that their deployment is quick, that their infrastructures are easy to recycle and safe, that they provide a guaranteed security of supply, that their production is a financial manna for the State and an opportunity for economic spin-offs for all, and that they result in a quick and radical reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

[en] It would be presumptuous, given the inertia and hoped for breakthroughs, to predict how the energy system will evolve by such a far-off horizon as 2050. However it seems evident, given ever stronger long-term requirements and the constant progress made in response to them, to foresee how this evolution should be oriented in order to be sustainable. (author)

[en] The sad perspective of climate change combined with the foreseen depletion of fossil energy in the coming decades impose a radical change in the way we collect, transform, distribute, use and save energy in our modern economies. Over the past few years, many European Governments have made calls and announced plans to reduce by 60 to 80% their national Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2050. The present paper summarises the approach, the assumptions and the findings of a scenario performed by an multidisciplinary team for defining a sustainable energy path for a major European country. The scenario uniquely relies on three complementary steps: energy sufficiency, energy efficiency and renewable energy. The analysis clearly indicates the importance of engaging major energy conservation programmes now and in all sectors of the economy if we want to indeed influence greenhouse gas emissions in the medium and longer term. The paper describes and discusses the key policies that need to be put in place for each sector in the short term. The paper concludes on side benefits of renewed energy conservation efforts (like perspective on local employments) as well as the complementarities and the synergies of policies and measures between local, national and European levels

[en] Law no. 2023-175 of March 10, 2023 on the acceleration of renewable energy production, also named the APER law, was promulgated on March 10, 2023, after several months of study by both houses of parliament and an examination by a joint commission. This law is structured around 5 key topics: planning, value sharing, development of projects with shared governance, imperative reason of major public interest and solar energy. In this publication, the Cler network, drawing on the experience of its members, deciphers the issues at stake in this law to help elected representatives and local players

[en] This publication explains why the following common beliefs are wrong: renewable energies are expensive; our energy bill will increase because of renewable energies; renewable energies do not create jobs; renewable energies deplete rare resources and biodiversity; renewable energies are not reliable; because of renewable energies, we'll have high voltage lines everywhere; agro-fuels are the only solution for transport; using wood for heating destroys the forest; there will never be enough renewable energies for heating; energy is the concern of large corporations; we are being ripped with renewable energies

[en] In a first part, this publication outlines the present critical situation of the world, presents the negaWatt scenario as a compass for action, outlines that the method adopted for this scenario is rigorous, coherent and fruitful (a bottom-up approach, economy at the right place, carbon print and material assessment), outlines the need of a wider approach in space and in time, and the independence of this collective approach. The second part defines the objective as a more sustainable and fairer society with a global reduction of the environmental print (climate neutrality, renewable energies, reduction of material consumption, protection of biodiversity and of water resources), new economic dynamics (competitiveness of renewable energies, new industrial strategies, value creation at territorial scale, activities generating diversification and growth), perspectives of social progress (job creation, struggle against vulnerabilities and hunger, limitation of inequalities), improvement of living conditions (better health and well-being, a healthier environment, living better with less), a shared governance at all scales (democracy and efficient regulating institutions, education and information, partnerships, focus on local action). The third part details various sector-based measures (building renovation, mobility, industrial strategy, food transition and methanization, territorial development of photovoltaic, acceleration of wind energy development, a well managed nuclear phasing out), and transverse measures (governance, support to job evolutions and to ecological conversions, financing of energy transition). A fourth document proposes a synthetic presentation of these same elements