DECRYPTION – The executive is forced to reopen the site for six months. The shortage of Russian gas organized by Moscow is not the only reason.
Winter is coming and the hour is serious. The government has been forced to reopen a coal-fired power plant to reduce the risk of power cuts during the next cold season – without this being enough to keep the specter away. The executive has asked GazelEnergie to relaunch its Saint-Avold plant, in Moselle, for six months (from October 2022 to March 2023). The shutdown of the last coal-fired power plants in France by 2022 was enshrined in law in 2019, in order to reduce CO emissions2. Coal is, by far, the energy that emits the most greenhouse gases before fuel oil and gas.
We said from the start that the closure of the Saint-Avold power plant was a strategic error and that it had to be kept in reserve
Jean-Pierre Damm, site FO union representative
Winter will be tense for two reasons. In addition to the Russian gas shortage organized by Moscow, EDF’s nuclear power plants, affected by a series anomaly, are less present than ever. Around ten reactors had to be shut down for in-depth checks following the discovery of a series fault. “We said from the start that the closure of the Saint-Avold power plant…
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