France to close 14 nuclear & 4 remaining coal power plants.

Socguy writes: French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech on Tuesday in which he announced a raft of new energy policies, including a promise to close the country’s remaining four coal-fired power plants by 2022 and 14 of the country’s 900 MW first-generation nuclear reactors by 2035.

The generation capacity will be replaced with wind and solar.