Question 16388 — energy and fuels

Summary

Mr. Stéphane Travert draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature to the place of biopropane in the national energy transition strategy for rural areas. The Government has initiated a vast plan to electrify uses in order to accelerate the decarbonization of the French economy. If this orientation constitutes a major lever of energy transition, it cannot respond alone to the diversity of situations encountered in rural and isolated areas. In fact, nearly 25,000 municipalities are not connected to the natural gas network and certain uses, particularly in construction or certain economic activities, remain difficult to electrify or can only be done at particularly high costs. Several studies also highlight that rural households already bear a higher energy cost than that observed in urban areas, both for heating and for mobility. In this context, biopropane, or bioLPG, constitutes a complementary solution to electrification. A renewable, transportable and storable gas, it would make it possible to support the decarbonization of off-grid territories without requiring massive investments in new infrastructure. However, the sector is today facing a significant strengthening of regulatory and fiscal constraints, in particular through the increase in obligations linked to energy savings certificates, the rise in energy taxation and the future application of the emissions trading system for buildings and transport. According to industry players, these developments could result in an additional cost of 15 to 30% for rural households using LPG, even though no specific support system for the development of biopropane is currently planned. Under these conditions, he asks what measures the Government intends to take to recognize the role of biopropane as complementary energy to electrification in rural and isolated territories; to fully integrate this renewable energy in future policies relating to the energy renovation of buildings and the transposition of European texts relating to their energy performance and to prevent the evolution of taxation and regulatory obligations applicable to LPG and biopropane from leading to a worsening of the energy poverty of rural households.

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