The National Meeting of France in Paris
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The National Assembly of France today rejected a proposed change by right-wing parties that proposed the introduction of a moratorium for projects for solar and wind energy.
The majority of the meeting voted against the proposal, which was approved by a small part of parliament a week earlier.
The final approval of the amendment would have meant to stop all procedures for the permission of large-scale wind and solar energy facilities.
The Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès-Pannier-Runacher, said on Sunday that the moratorium about wind and photovoltaic energy would have been “unreasonably” and called for “responsibility” of MPs in the further investigation of the text about the Future of France.
The French government already introduced a moratorium on wind and solar energy in 2010. It led to the almost complete closure of the tariff schedule for solar food, disrupted the solar industry and eliminated 20,000 jobs in the photovoltaic sector.
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