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The French Disconnection: reducing the nuclear share in France’s Energy Mix / David Buchan, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, EU Energy Policy Blog, 15/01/2014http://www.energypolicyblog.com/2014/01/15/the-french-disconnection-reducing-the-nuclear-share-in-frances-energy-mix/France has entered into a national debate about its energy transition to meet its long range target to reduce CO2 emissions by 75 per cent by 2050, while maintaining security of supply and the competitiveness of French industry. It is a muddled debate, because the trigger for it is an electoral commitment by President François Hollande to reduce the nuclear share in the country’s electricity mix from over 70 per cent today to around 50 per cent by 2025, a commitment that few people in France – and maybe not even the president himself – regard as sensible or feasible to carry out to the letter. Indeed the origin of the commitment is almost an accident of electoral politics. And the national debate has done little to clarify the issue...