Colossal initial investments and a decade of work, before seeing the slightest kilowatt hour leaving the plant.
The financing of nuclear reactors is a headache for large companies that risk it.
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To develop its new generation EPRs, EDF is trying to imagine new financial models in order to reduce the bill for the controllable and carbon-free energy necessary to fight against global warming.
"The real savings are in the cost of capital"
, summarizes Nicolas Goldberg, consultant at Colombus Consulting.
The French Nuclear Energy Company (Sfen) even figures these:
"Significant gains are possible (…) up to 50% on financial costs, in particular through the design of contracts."
The counter-example that EDF no longer wants to reproduce - it no longer has the means to do so - is Hinkley Point.
The two EPRs, under construction on the Somerset coast in England, weigh heavily on EDF's accounts.
In 2020, the
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