The Alsatian energy company issued “market transactions […] erroneously in quantity”, obliging him to repair his error at a high price.
It is a computer problem with important consequences. Spotted by the Echoes, a misadventure of Electricity of Strasbourg will cost several tens of millions of euros to the energy company. Last week, the latter indeed issued sales operations “wrongly in quantity“, twice, on September 6 and 7, for “2.03GW and 5.75GW” respectively. Contacted, he pleads “a malfunction on [son] information system“.
In concrete terms, the Alsatian energy company has “sold on the spot market large quantities of electricity“which he did not have, and therefore proceeded to “readjustment operations to correct the imbalance“. Last Friday, Electricité de Strasbourg specified that these operations “generated an estimated cost of 60 million euros“. Other elements will be communicated.in the group’s accounts no later than the publication of its 2022 annual results“, he said in a press release.
This error occurs in a context where the main shareholder of the company, EDF, is in great financial difficulty, and must gradually relaunch its network of nuclear power plants to face a winter which promises to be tense. In addition, the price of electricity being particularly high, Électricité de Strasbourg pays dearly for itsdysfunction“.