Climate Plans Air Energy Territorial (PCAET) from Normandy

In line with its international and European commitments in the field of energy and the fight against climate change, France has developed policies whose increasing ambitions have been enshrined in successive laws, including the Law on the Energy Transition for Green Growth of 17 August 2015 (L.T.E.C.V.). This law reinforces and clarifies France’s ambitions. These include: reduce greenhouse gas emissions; reduce final energy consumption; reduce primary energy consumption of fossil fuels; increase the share of renewable energy; contribute to the reduction of air pollution; implement a policy of thermal renovation of housing by five times the production of heat and cooling networks by 2030. The Climate Plan Air Territorial Energy (PCAET) is part of this process; it is linked to other strategic planning arrangements at scales: national, regional and local. The LTECV strengthens the role of public institutions for intercommunal cooperation (EPCI) in mobilising their territories by implementing these plans, which now include the air quality component. It is also important to point out that the PCAET now focuses on all emissions, energy consumption and production in the territory, not just those falling within the remit of the required public authority. The regulatory obligation to implement the PCAETs shall be implemented gradually: EPCI with more than 20,000 inhabitants must adopt a PCAET by 31 December 2018. EPCI with a population of more than 50,000 by 1 January 2015 and whose geographical scope has not changed since then were to adopt a PCAET by 31 December 2016. At less than 20,000 inhabitants, voluntary PCAETs can be developed. Their content may then be similar to that of the compulsory PCAETs, but local town planning plans will not have an obligation to take into account them. EPCIs have the possibility of grouping together to carry out a common PCAET, notably at the level of a SCOT or PETR.