The shock proposals of the former EDF CEO

Henri Proglio militates for a stopping of renewable energies and the current EPR2 program. Therefore, He recommends designing a new medium power reactor model.

He still has a hard tooth against the current government. Consequently, EDF’s former CEO remains very critical with regard to Emmanuel Macron’s energy policy. Therefore, While the Parliament debates objectives in terms of nuclear. However, renewable energy until 2035, Henri Proglio goes, as usual, no dead hand.

“We have to get France out of the European energy market. Similarly, ” he said before the Association of Economic and Financial Journalists (AJEF) on Monday.

The “Gremillet law” must be subject to the vote on Tuesday in the National Assembly. Consequently, The deputies go away in particular on the price of electricity. Meanwhile, EDF. Furthermore, the State had concluded an agreement, at the end of 2023, aimed at multiplying long -term contracts with shock proposals former edf ceo companies to replace the regulation of prices, called “Arenh” in place since 2012. However, The old CEO, for its part, is sweeping this choice of hand.

“You have to go back to an integrated EDF system. For example, with a national price and a price for export,” he said, based on Spain’s decision, during the energy crisis, to partially get out of the European price fixing model.

“A national prize” – Shock proposals former edf ceo

At the question of the “right price of electricity”. For example, Henri Proglio explained that during his mandate at the head of EDF (2009-2014), the cost of production of nuclear was estimated at € 60/MWh, dismantling of power plants included, and a “small margin” for EDF.

He has pointed out the outgoing CEO policy. Therefore, Luc Rémont, whose vision of growing prices to maximize EDF profits was not compatible with the public service missions of the company. He was quick to expose shock proposals former edf ceo his vision to his successor, Bernard Fontana who met him last week.

Henri Proglio is not tender either with political leaders. “They sacrificed nuclear power when its competitiveness is a key element in our economy,” he added.

He believes that Emmanuel Macron has “no vision” of energy policy. The two men have never had good relationships. When he was Minister of the Economy. between 2014 and 2016, Emmanuel Macron had helped not renew Henri Proglio at the head of EDF and then chased him from the presidency of Thales.

Stop the EPR. build a new reactor

Very radical, he believes that “renewable energies must be stopped whose subsidies weigh too much on the price of electricity”. But more astonishing for those who had signed the construction of the two British EPRs of Hinkley Point. he now campaigns to stop the program of new reactors, called “EPR2”.

“This model is not ready. the EPR shock proposals former edf ceo is an unconscious reactor model,” says Henri Proglio who has always criticized the EPR. It pushes to start from scratch so that EDF designed a new. smaller reactor of around 1000 MW against 1600 MW for the EPR.

“The reactors of this size are easier to build, cheaper and export better,” he argues.

A speech that has been circulating very widely at EDF for a few months. Part of the company’s managers provide. under the cover of anonymity, that the nuclear sector is not in working order to relaunch a new park. The former EDF CEO judges that France must extend the current reactors twenty more years more. beyond the current limit of 60 years of exploitation. This 20 -year extension would give EDF time to design and build this new medium power reactor.

Its strategy inspires the national rally …

Henri Proglio’s speech looks like word for the word shock proposals former edf ceo for the proposals of the national rally expressed during the parliamentary. debate on energy policy.

“I speak with everyone,” he confirms so soberly. The former CEO of EDF claims not to know the president of the RN. Jordan Bardella, a way of emphasizing that he knows very well Marine Le Pen very well that he has encountered several times in recent years. His speech is widely taken up by the deputy for the Somme. Jean-Philippe Tanguy, who deals with energy issues at the RN.

“You have to stop wind turbines because they do not work. cost very expensive […] And the electricity bill has exploded since intermittent energies were deployed, said deputy RN last Thursday on BFM Business. It is better to use power plants and increase their operating rate “.

Taking up the ideas of Henri Proglio. Jean-Philippe Tanguy also deposited in the National Assembly an amendment offering an “national price corresponding shock proposals former edf ceo to the average price for the consumer, calculated according to the cost of production”.

The RN deputy also relies on the recommendations of the former president of Areva. Anne Lauvergeon estimates that EDF can increase the productivity of her 30 % reactors in her book “A secret. so well kept” (Grasset). The national rally achieves the feat of bringing together the worst enemies of the nuclear sector. the former CEO of EDF and the ex-president of Areva.