Subsidies, bank loans, call for savings? The parameters for the financing of the future program of nuclear power plants planned by the State and EDF for after 2035 will be fixed by “the end of the year” declared Wednesday the Minister for Energy Transition Agnès Pannier Runacher.
We don’t need a new tax, we need long-term financing (…) what is certain is that we will set the financing parameters by the end of the year in said Ms. Pannier Runacher on France Info.
The new CEO of EDF Luc Rmont reminded Tuesday before a Commission of the National Assembly that the estimated cost for the construction of the 6 EPRs announced by Emmanuel Macron last year, was dated 51 billion euros, an impossible sum. by EDF alone, heavily indebted.
The cost of capital can be the subject of work in the structuring of these projects and there is the ability to work, project by project, to ensure that their cost is not increased, this is one of the subjects on which we work for the EPR series, said Mr. Rmont on Tuesday.
Among the possible avenues, the minister mentioned Wednesday morning a contribution from the State in EDF capital of which it is the main shareholder, or support from the Caisse des Dpots. This subject, raised by the president of the Caisse himself Eric Lombard, arouses a lot of emotion because the Caisse manages the people’s savings passbook A and finances social housing in France.
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I’m not saying that’s the solution we’ve chosen, but it’s one of the subjects that we have to look at with the minister on this subject.
She defended herself in advance of any budgetary deviation: We invest, it is not an expense, we invest in something which must bring us money, she said, taking as an example the public funding granted to producers of wind or solar energy: We have supported renewable energies and today they bring in more than 20 billion euros to the State budget.