François Ruffin
Energy
18 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
Campaign proposal or statement : 18
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Limit domestic biomass use to about 250–300 TWh annually to protect farming, forest carbon sinks and ecosystems, with nuclear and renewable electricity the main fossil-fuel substitute.
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Target roughly 1,050 TWh of energy needs in 2050, a reduction of about one third; the scenario assigns roughly 40% savings to buildings and 60% to transport, without these effects being independently verified.
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Gradually leave the electricity market, end competition in retail supply and set public prices according to actual production costs.
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Gradually restore fully public generation: EDF managing new large nuclear and renewable plants, with local authorities or public utilities developing local renewable projects.
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Extend existing reactors only with safety-authority approval and adapt cooling to limit river warming.
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Protect coastal nuclear plants against sea-level rise and have EDF invest in increasing existing plant capacity by roughly 5–7%.
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Continue construction of the six EPR2 reactors already included in the cahier’s scenario, chiefly to replace plants closing around 2040–2050.
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Decide on eight additional EPR2 reactors according to EDF’s estimate and consider alternatives if the cost is too high.
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Reverse the ASN–IRSN merger to separate nuclear-safety oversight structures again.
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Invest in hydroelectric dams to increase peak-output and storage capacity.
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Continue wind and other renewables, increase local-authority governance and local economic benefits, and relocate wind-industry production to France.
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Identify electric vehicles, batteries, wind turbines, air-to-water and air-to-air heat pumps, photovoltaics, timber, insulation, turbines and rail equipment as strategic examples.
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Systematically include industrial, social and environmental conditions favouring local manufacture in renewable support, with bulk orders from EDF and public utilities.
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Generalise long-term electricity contracts through a single public buyer, such as RTE, for households and businesses; cap industrial prices at average national generation cost with site-adapted distribution charges.
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Extend low network tariffs to all industry and limit the costliest connections, including some interconnectors, floating wind or small-scale photovoltaics, with state funding if needed.
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Retain the European market for imports and exports while shielding domestic prices from changes unrelated to costs; aim for 100% of generation under contracts, contingent on European negotiations, with envisaged stages of 70% and then 85%.
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Combine insulation, heat pumps and biomass or district heating to reduce winter demand peaks; a fifteen-gigawatt reduction in 2035 is a scenario estimate.
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Prioritise essential needs, electrification and French and European industry in RTE connection queues ahead of non-strategic data centres.
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Source Civique, « François Ruffin — Energy », https://sourcecivique.fr/en/candidates/francois-ruffin/energie/, accessed [date] (version of 1 November 2026).
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