The pride of electric France, its fleet of nuclear power plants, half down.
While Vladimir Putin almost turned off the Russian gas tap to suffocate the European economy, the 56 reactors could have provided energy that Europe sorely lacks.
The ace.
More than half of the fleet is currently shut down.
This winter will be very tense, because only about 45 gigawatts out of a total power of 63 gigawatts will be running.
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By December, the operator must restart no less than 25 reactors.
Will he keep up?
Wholesale market players do not believe in EDF's ability to achieve this recovery.
Evidenced by a price per megawatt hour (1000 kilowatt hours) of 1200 euros for delivery in December.
This corresponds to a darker scenario than the most pessimistic of those envisaged by RTE for this winter.
Many causes of inefficiencies can partly explain the lengthening of unit outages
Maintenance Outage Audit Report Summary
EDF's liability in terms of delays in restarting its reactors does not lead to optimism.
Since 2016, the operator has systematically had several…
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