The European Commission has endorsed three French initiatives to produce more than 17 gigawatts in renewable energy, including a sewage gas development scheme.
The Commission approved the schemes to support electricity production from small-scale onshore wind, solar and sewage gas installations in France under EU state aid rules. The schemes will allow France to develop more than 17 additional gigawatts in renewable energy.
The onshore wind scheme has a provisional budget of €1 billion per year, the solar scheme has a provisional budget of €190 million per year, and the sewage gas development scheme has a provisional budget of €58 million per year.
The measures will help France achieve its 2020 target of producing 23% of its energy needs from renewable sources.
For the sewage gas support scheme, France estimates that 160 megawatts is the remaining potential of sewage gas installations in France that can be supported, most of which are installations of less than 1 megawatt.
While the scheme is open also to larger installations, it is therefore mainly expected to be applied mainly to small installations. Installations of 500 kilowatts or more will receive support in the form of a premium on top of the market price over twenty years. Installations below 500 kilowatts will receive a feed-in tariff over twenty years.
The three newly approved measures are complementing already approved small scale biogas (SA.46898) and small scale hydro tariffs (SA.43780).
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