"France Plans to Reduce Nuclear in Favor of Renewables"

As reported by Eric Marx and ClimateWire/E&E, reprinted in Scientific American:

"France, one of the world’s leaders in nuclear energy production, plans to draw down nuclear’s share of electricity generation from 75 to 50 percent by 2025—giving itself a 10-year time frame equivalent to the complete shutdown now ongoing in Germany."

The article concludes:

“Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come,” said Jedliczka [of the environmental advocacy group Négawatt Society], quoting Victor Hugo. “In the medium to long term, I am very optimistic that PV—both small and large—and wind will develop on their own without public support,” he said.

“Even in France,” he added, “where the opposition has proven itself adept at inventing, testing and improving all kinds of pitfalls for postponing the development of renewables technologies.”

"Renewable Energy is Killing Nuclear Power"

Jeff Siegel at Energy & Capital has admitted "I changed my mind," and that there is "No hope for nuclear." Siegel cites data from the 2015 World Nuclear Industry Status Report to reach his conclusion that the "renaissance" is in renewables, not nuclear.

UBS: "solar with eventually replace nuclear and coal"

As reported on page 90, in the July 2015 World Nuclear Industry Status Report:

"UBS, the largest Swiss bank says of large-scale power plants that they will become 'the dinosaur of the future energy system: Too big, too inflexible; not even relevant for backup power in the long run.'

...UBS, in a report published in June 2015, stated: 'We believe solar with eventually replace nuclear and coal, and [be] establish[ed] as the default technology of the future to generate and supply electricity.'"

(citing: UBS, "Will solar, batteries and electric cars reshape the electricity system?", August 20, 2014)