法国能源立场文件

Delegate: Zhou JunrouSchool: Foreign Language School Attached to Guangxi Normal UniversityCountry: FranceCommittee: IEATopic: The Guarantee of Energy Security& The Development of Clean and Renewable Energy Energy plays a major role in human’s production needs and household use. Since the 1950s, all countries have attached great significance to energy security due to the outbreak of oil crisis. There is evidence that the energy consumption will be three times as large as current one. Nowadays, energy security will not be guaranteed with the energy consumption remains immovable, for the world’s energy consumption is dominated by oil. And analogous crisis are bound to arise when energy security is facing threats, such as terrorism, and natural disasters, etc. In attempt to sustain an uninterrupted supply of energy, France didn’t sit back.The limitation of the oil makes various countries trying to develop their own new energy technologies, striving to get a head start in the renewable technology innovation. Meanwhile, along with the fossil energy such as coal, petroleum, natural gas being depleted and the environmental pollution being increasingly serious, exploiting clean and renewable energy is already in an extremely urgency.As a resource-poor developed country, France has a population of 62 million, its annual energy consumption accounts for 2.5% of the world’s consumption. In April 2004, France shut down its last coalmine, which marked an end to the coal industry. In the meantime, its production of oil and natural gas only satisfied 3% of domestic needs. To safeguard energy supplies for a population of 62 million, France has been fulfilling its minimum stockholding obligation as a member country of IEA as well as EU. In 1925, the French parliament passed a bill about the establishment of National Bureau of Liquid Fuel whose initial purpose is to meet the fuel requirements in the army, but with the scope of oil reserves expanding, the purpose has changed to avoid the energy shortage impact the ec onomic development. What’s more, nuclear energy development plan has been formulated by the French government. In the nuclear power sector, France has created an independent Nuclear Safety Authority (NSA) and established a comprehensive framework for managing all kinds of radioactive waste and materials. Currently, more than 80 percentage of France’s electricity come from 58 reactors in 19 power plants. However, the international community has been discouraging the development of nuclear energy since the end of last century because of a number of accidents.In order to adapt to the update and development trend of world’s energy, the French government optimize the energy policy which seeks to achieve a balance between environmentally responsible production and use of energy, economic growth and economic competitiveness, secure and competitively priced energy and infrastructure. To meet these objectives, the French government in 2007 launched an impressive environmental program, Grenelle de l’Environnement(Grenelle Environment Round Table in English), which sets ambitious targets, particularly in the buildings and transport sectors. The government has also made commendable efforts in enhancing gas supply security and forwarding initiatives to expand infrastructure and interconnections with neighboring countries. These efforts should make regional electricity and gas markets more stable and secure.France plays an important role in world trade, its high energy consumption precipitates the government and the society to pay high attention to the clean and renewable energy. According to President Francois Hollanded’s energy strategic concept, French nuclear power generation, whichaccounts for the proportion of the total generating capacity will fall to 50% and below. A plan for increasing at least twice of the wind power generation has been announced by the government recently, which rests with the large reserves and wide distribution in wind power.In addition to the domestic efforts, France will still actively establish cooperated relationship with the energy producers as well as some leading countries in terms of exploiting renewable energy. Besides, retaining the upper hand in the fuel ethanol technology and industry will become France’s competitive preponderance over the next decade. At the same time, the government is expected to release a series of policy to perfect the energy security mechanism and stimulate the private participation, which has the capacity to stable the economy domestic and abroad.Compared to those oil producing countries seething with political unrest, France and other energy consumers now has a relatively stable social environment for development. Therefore, energy partnership should get full negotiation by the IEA’s coordination, which aims to sufficiently consider the interests of all countries also private sectors, especially when the price of international energy fluctuates very much, rational, unbiased and flexible energy pricing system will guarantee that each side gain a win-win situation.。