Europe 1 with AFP 9:11 p.m., January 13, 2022
The government will ask EDF to sell more electricity at low prices to its competitors, in order to keep its promise to limit the increase in the French electricity bill to 4% in 2022, despite the surge in prices, announced Thursday the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire.
The government will ask EDF to sell more electricity at low prices to its competitors, in order to keep its promise to limit the increase in the French electricity bill to 4% in 2022, despite the surge in prices, announced Thursday the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire.
A measure that will cost between 7.7 billion and 8.4 billion to EDF
The government, which had already reduced the main tax on electricity to the maximum, an insufficient measure to contain this outbreak, will "implement a complementary measure by increasing by 20 terawatt hours (TWh) the volume of nuclear electricity sold at a reduced price by EDF to its competitors, to increase it exceptionally from 100 to 120 TWh", announced the minister in an interview published on the Parisian website.
This measure will cost between 7.7 billion and 8.4 billion euros to EDF, estimated Bruno Le Maire.