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France / Government Plans Nuclear Market Reform

By David Dalton
17 January 2020

Existing scheme has come under criticism from both suppliers and EDF
Government Plans Nuclear Market Reform
Photo courtesy Nathan Hughes Hamilton/Flickr.
The French government plans to introduce a “price corridor” for France’s wholesale nuclear power market that will enable state-controlled utility EDF to cover its costs while shielding consumers from volatile electricity price increases.The government-proposed reform, set out in a consultative paper, would replace the ARENH nuclear market scheme under which EDF, which operates France’s commercial 58 nuclear reactors, is obliged to sell 100 TWh, or around a quarter of its annual nuclear output, to rivals at a fixed price of €42 per MWh.

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