The French government has presented a plan of 22 measures to accelerate national electrification. The initiative aims to reduce external energy dependence, protecting household economies. The plan ranges from heat pumps to electric ovens for bakeries, with a comprehensive approach that will select 100 pioneering territories as test laboratories.
One hundred pilot territories as energy transition laboratories ⚡
The strategy relies on creating 100 pioneering zones that will function as test beds for electrification technologies. Priority is given to the installation of turnkey heat pumps, the modernization of local electrical grids, and the conversion of industrial processes, such as bakery ovens. Each territory will test solutions adapted to its context, generating data to scale the measures to the rest of the country.
Goodbye Russian gas, hello electric oven with croissant 🥐
The most talked-about measure is the conversion of bakery ovens to electricity. Now, instead of importing gas, the French will import electricity from their neighbors to bake baguettes. Of course, the croissant will have a more sustainable flavor, even if the electricity bill rises like brioche dough. At least, the crisis will be 100% national.