An agreement was finally reached between the State and EDF after long months of negotiations. They agreed on an average price of nuclear electricity “around 70 euros” per megawatt hour, announced Tuesday the Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire. A tariff which allows a “vital balance between the competitiveness of our industry, visibility, stability for households and the development of EDF”, commented the minister, promising “permanent protection” for consumers on electricity prices. electricity.
Highlighting the massive electrification of uses, Bruno Le Maire indicated that it was “essential for the consumer to have price stability”, ensuring that it would be “guaranteed” by this new agreement, which will “also allow guarantee our compatriots the financing of our future investments, in particular in new nuclear reactors.”
Regulated prices extended to very small businesses
Another subject of attention, the competitiveness of the economy, while France is engaged in its reindustrialization. Here again, Bruno Le Maire assured that “for businesses, this agreement preserves our competitiveness assets”. He announced the extension of regulated prices to all very small businesses from 2026.
This agreement lays the foundations for the future regulation of the price of electricity while the current so-called Arenh mechanism, which benefits individual and industrial consumers, ends at the end of 2025. For industrialists who purchase their electricity with two years in advance, there was an urgency to find a new framework.