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How EDF won the electric heating battle against Engie

2020-11-25T11:14:44.449Z


DECRYPTION - New regulations will soon apply to the construction of new housing. It will exclude gas heating. Explanation.


It was a battle that had been going on behind the scenes for many months.

It ends with a victory by K.-O.

from the world of electricity to that of gas.

It is EDF, champion of electricity in France, which takes precedence over Engie, which invests a lot in renewable energies, but of which 40% of operating profit still comes from gas distribution.

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Tuesday, November 24, Barbara Pompili, Minister of Ecological Transition, and Emmanuelle Wargon, Minister for Housing, presented the new thermal regulations which will apply from next year to the construction of new housing.

Called "RE2020" (pronounced "RE-twenty-twenty"), it aims to exclude gas heating of new houses from next summer and of buildings in 2024.

“The RE2020 concentrates the attentions and tenses a lot, even if the new building represents each year only 1% of the real estate park

, recognized a few days ago a player of electricity.

But if the

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Source: lefigaro

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