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ADEME
Sustainable
Energy Project
ADEME • Direction des Energies Renouvelables
500 Route des Lucioles - 06560 Valbonne • France
Tel: +33 (0)4 93 95 79 55 • Fax: +33 (0) 4 93 65 31 96
Email: • Stephane.Pouffary@ademe.fr
ADEME, the French Agency for the Environment
and Energy Management, is involved
in a long-term framework agreement
(2000-2006) with the 26 regions of
France annexed to the State-Region contracts
(CPER) to promote RE and EE
measures. This project improves the economic
position for RE industry sectors that
are close to competitiveness (e.g. reduction
of costs of electricity from RES), reduces
the non-commercial barriers for
other sectors (e.g. the very unfavourable
tax system for geothermal), facilitates research
and development for sectors such
as PV that are still facing very high production
costs.
Main aims and motivations
The national objectives are fixed by the
government. However, ADEME facilitates
the implementation of these objectives
within the regions being an intermediary
between the two parties. ADEME takes
the opportunity of the CPER contracts to
fulfil the agency’s commitment to promote
RE and EE measures. ADEME experiments
local projects, and generalizes them
in the rest of the regions of France if proven
to be successful.
Ways of action
ADEME focuses on 7 main ways of action:
Research priorities; supporting the definition
of standards and regulations; Readily
accessible procedures to support decisionmaking
(from pre-diagnosis to guidance,
from diagnosis to preliminary study); Demonstration
of good examples to promote
market access, remedy a failure of diffusion
and develop organizational or territorial
practice; Financial support to investments;
Strengthened international action;
Crosscutting communication to inform the
public and maintain a link between all the
parties concerned.
Overall Evaluation
The intervention of ADEME as a third party
between the government and the regional
entities facilitated a contract-process on
energy policies, therefore it was easier:
to identify objectives and ways to implement
projects ;
to evaluate the financial needs ;
to involve all the regions.
Innovative financing scheme
During the 7 years period (2000-2006),
ADEME will provide 557 million Euros for
energy and environmental projects, of which
127 million Euros are for RES. The 26
French regions will bring 536 million Euros,
and European Regional Development Fund
another 270 million Euros. Thus, a total of
1,363 million Euros will be dedicated to the
project during the overall period.
Sectoral objectives (2000-2006)
Enabling factors
The contractual framework is optimal for
ADEME, who can plan its actions at local
levels, while at the same time it enables the
spread of successful experiences to other
regions of France more efficiently, and at a
lower cost. A contract is negotiated with
each of the 26 regions.
Challenges
In order to create a long-term sustainable
market development, it was important to
demonstrate that the programme offered
guarantees thorough quality standards and
certification. Partnerships formed through
the CPER contracts enabled the different RE
sectors to be structured, organised and certified.
Replication potential
The fact that ADEME is involved in the
large-scale programme of the CPER and
is therefore linked to the State-Regions
dynamic makes the agency able to replicate
a project that was successful in one
region in all 26 French regions.
333,000 m² of solar thermal collectors newly installed in Metropolitan France
280,000 m² of solar thermal collectors newly installed in overseas departments and territories
1,000 additional collective wood heat installation
500 supplementary isolated electrified sites/year
55 GWh/year of electricity on the grid from RES (small hydro-power and PV) in the overseas dep. and territories and in Corsica.
a capacity of 30 MW by 2006 (additional) on the grid from small hydro-power plants
a capacity of 1,200 MW by 2006 (additional) on the grid from wind farms
20 electricity biogas exploitations from dump
20 biogas exploitations from agro-industrial effluents
3-4 large geothermal operations
Plan soleil
One of ADEME’s major successes in the field of solar thermal development. It aims at creating quality chart for solar thermal installers,
launching large-scale communication campaign, giving financial support to solar thermal systems buyers, etc… This programme first
started in some regions with which ADEME negotiated under the CPER (State-Region Contract) systems. Thanks to a system where all
regions are covered by the same type of contracts, ADEME could easily replicate this success to all regions. It is now a national programme.
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