This industrial site consumes the most electricity in France.
3.9 TWh per year, i.e. the electricity consumption of 850,000 households.
It is also the largest primary aluminum producer in the European Union.
It was there, at Aluminum Dunkerque, that Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister Delegate for Industry, went this Friday to take stock of the measures intended to enable manufacturers to cope with the soaring prices of electricity in recent months.
It's urgent.
“At the end of last year, we decided to lower our production by 15%
, explains Guillaume de Goÿs, CEO of Aluminum Dunkerque.
We posted an operating loss of 5 million euros in December, while we had expected a gain of 5 million.
And this differential is explained exclusively by the price of electricity.”
EDF not enthusiastic
The situation is all the more frustrating as
“our order books are full”
.
And the aluminum producer is not the only one to make such a decision…
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