European Commission has just announced the launch of a detailed inquiry regarding Areva restructuration. That’s all if needed. If there is one achievement France can be rightly proud about, along with high-speed trains and communication networks, it is its nuclear power production. It allowed us, since we don’t have any oil, natural gas or coal, to improve our trade balance, without emitting CO2 and providing consumers with unbeatable prices. Our German and Italian neighbors are paying for it between 50 and 80% more. So, for the last four years, this activity is undergoing constant political attacks. Areva which ...

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Every year, BP publishes its statistics which are an authority and which recount, country by country, the evolution for the last ten years of the production and the consumption of each category of energy. This year report brings the confirmation of a phenomenon which totally invalidates pessimistic forecasts of the last thirty years. We could even go back to the “club de Rome” studies according to which the resources of the planet being limited, we should be prepared to manage their scarcity, especially regarding oil and natural gas. Coal, temporarily, was not concerned by these analysis but the same reasoning ...

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This figure, which has just been published by the Ministry of Durable Development, has been completely unnoticed. Comments have been focused on EDF C.F.O. resignation and the risks associated with the building of two nuclear power plants in Hinkley Point, England. These two issues are much more connected than it is usually thought. But, don’t tell it !

Our power exports have increased by 10% in 2015 and if we deduct imports, the surplus reach 2,3 billions euros, 7,1% more than in 2014. This is one of the highest contributions to France trade balance, more or ...

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