Nuclear Politics

Europe / Bloc Reaches Electricity Market Reform Deal That Allows France To Subsidise Nuclear Plants

By David Dalton
18 October 2023

Paris says energy policy is ‘sovereign choice’ and EU benefits from its reactors

Bloc Reaches Electricity Market Reform Deal That Allows France To Subsidise Nuclear Plants
The four-unit Cruas nuclear power station in southern France. Courtesy ASN.
Germany has said France can use state subsidies to fund its nuclear power plants, breaking a months-long deadlock in talks on electricity market reform that were held up by disagreements over the use of subsidies for energy investments.

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