France had in 2022 never produced so little electricity in France, a record since 1992 which is explained by a historic drop in nuclear production linked to the difficulties of the fleet of EDF reactors, announced Thursday the manager of the RTE electricity transmission network in its annual report.
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Total electricity production is at its lowest level since 1992, due to weak nuclear and hydraulic production
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Only 62.7% of electricity was of nuclear origin last year, compared to 69% in 2021 and more than 70% before.
In absolute terms, never so few terawatt hours of nuclear origin had been produced since 1988, before the end of the construction of the nuclear fleet.
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