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EDF : la concurrence jusqu'à la lie?
EDF : competition to the bitter end?
A victim of failures in an aging nuclear fleet, overly timid development of renewable energy, a poorly designed European market, and multiple political blunders, EDF—the industrial flagship symbolizing postwar reconstruction and the Glorious Thirty—is destabilized.
Simultaneously called into question are the country’s sovereignty and independence, the economic stability of French companies, and the purchasing power of the French people. From this shock emerges a collective realization: how can we meet the major challenges of a carbon-free, abundant, and affordable electricity supply in the future?