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For the past fifteen years, the French government has been financing major\u00a0energy transition projects\u00a0<\/strong>through\u00a0calls for tenders<\/strong>, with a particular focus on\u00a0supporting renewable electricity production<\/strong>. However, it faces several dilemmas.\u00a0“Beyond the goal of minimizing costs, government agencies are often subject to numerous constraints: complying with European directives, insuring producers against risk, protecting French industry, etc. to such an extent that the contracts established with producers sometimes contain inconsistencies and lead to pitfalls that were not anticipated by the authorities responsible for the subsidy mechanisms,”<\/em>\u00a0notes Laurent Lamy, lecturer and researcher at the International Research Center on Environment and Development (CIRED*) at ENPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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