Cost of energy: Yannick Jadot pleads for a check of 400 euros "for the most modest"

Gas, electricity, fuel: energy prices have risen since the start of the school year and have prompted the government to take support measures for the most modest households, with the payment of “energy vouchers” in particular. Additional aid of 100 euros for the month of December has thus been announced by the executive. But for Yannick Jadot, we must go further. The environmental candidate for the presidency defended, on the set of BFMTV this Sunday, the payment of an energy check of 400 additional euros “for the most modest households”.

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Yannick Jadot also proposes to introduce an energy check extended to the middle classes, in the amount of 100 euros. According to him, 16 million French people could benefit from this device. Currently, the energy check concerns 5.8 million low-income households, and allows them to pay part of their energy bills. The amount of the energy voucher varies, for these households, from 48 euros to 277 euros.

"We have known for years that energy prices are volatile and can increase", also argues the winner of the environmental primary, who calls for focusing political efforts on reducing household energy consumption . "The basis is to reduce electricity consumption," says Yannick Jadot. "[Until now], there have been no efforts to insulate homes."

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The French energy mix in question

The rise in electricity prices, linked to that of gas, is reviving the debate on the energy mix in the context of the presidential campaign. Over the past week, President Emmanuel Macron has renewed his confidence in nuclear power, saying France "will continue to need it" in the years to come. As part of its France 2030 investment plan, the government has even allocated 1 billion euros to the development of French nuclear technologies. A strategy to which Yannick Jadot does not subscribe, arguing that over time, nuclear energy is intended to cost "more expensive", and in particular more than renewable energies.

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A prediction confirmed by figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and which is linked to the continuous fall in the price of renewable energy in recent years. However, nuclear energy will have the advantage, again according to the IEA, of producing energy more constantly since a power station will be running at full speed 70% of the time in 2050. A wind turbine will be running 25% of the time at full speed. power and a solar panel 14% of the time.

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