French industrial demand for power and hydrogen should rise by 58% over 2019-30

The French General Secretariat for Ecological Planning has released a new working paper on industrial green planning, seeking to decarbonise the French industrial sector. The sector’s greenhouse gas emissions are expected to decline by 44% over 2019-2030 (-35 MtCO_2eq), with about a fifth of drop due to electrification. The sector’s energy consumption is forecasted to decline by 3 to 10% over the 2019-2030 period, with an increase in electricity and hydrogen demand (+58%), as well as bioenergy and waste (x3.3). Meanwhile, oil products consumption will decline by 30%, gas consumption by 29% and coal and coke consumption by 66%. In 2030, the industrial sector will mostly consume power and hydrogen (36%, compared to 22% in 2019), oil products (24%, down from 33% in 2019), natural gas (19%, 26% in 2019) and bioenergy and waste (14%, 4% in 2019).

France is focusing on decarbonising 50 large industrial sites (excluding refining), seeking to cut their emissions by 45% by 2030 (compared to 2019 levels and excluding the agribusiness sector). Those 50 industrial sites account for 55% of national emissions and represent 82% of steel emissions (6 sites), 55% of chemicals emissions (16 sites), 49% of non-metallic mineral emissions (25 sites) and 7.5% of agribusiness emissions (2 sites).