Identifying remaining socio-technical challenges at the national level: France
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Identifying remaining socio-technical challenges at the national level: France
Author
Yannick Barthe
,
Morgan Meyer
Publication Date
France isn’t only a country known for its cheese… it’s also a country of nuclear power. With its 58 nuclear reactors (63,000 megawatts), producing 79% of the country’s electricity, France is arguably the world’s leader in the production of nuclear energy. It is estimated that the relative contribution of nuclear energy to power production in France will decline to 70% in 2020 - the main reason for this being governmental investments into renewable energies.