His comments come just days after the head of Jersey Electricity said that multi-million pound EU subsidies could help establish renewable energy, and that EU countries were struggling to meet legally-binding targets for clean power.
Senator Bailhache, the Assistant Chief Minister responsible for international relations, met the French government’s Europe Minister Bernard Cazeneuve in Paris on Wednesday for talks to explore how the relationship between Jersey and the French government can be developed.
Their meeting at the French Foreign Ministry was the first in which a Jersey minister has met a member of French PM Francois Hollande’s cabinet, and was described by Senator Bailhache as ‘constructive’.
Full report in Saturday’s JEP
