The connection of the plant to the grid has been delayed until late autumn, announces EDF

While the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) gave its approval to EDF on Monday 2 September for the production of the first electrons for the Flamanville EPR, the company announced a new delay in the commissioning of the reactor. Connection to the electricity grid is now planned by “late autumn”whereas previously the company had been counting on the end of summer, on September 21 at the latest.

“A test program will be implemented to achieve a power level of 25%”level during which the EPR “It will be connected to the national power grid for the first time and will then produce electricity”a deadline “expected late fall 2024”the group said in a press release.

During a press conference, the The deputy director of the French group’s nuclear production division, Régis Clément, also announced on Monday that “ASN has just given [à EDF] the agreement for [l]The first beginning » from the Flammaville EPR.

He also announced that nuclear production in France will increase by an estimated 2024 – between 340 and 360 TWh, compared to a range of 315 to 345 TWh initially planned – not including the upcoming production from the Flamanville EPR. “The other 56 reactors are working better than the ones we integrated”Régis Clément argued, so the production of “the EPR [de Flamanville] It will come at an additional cost ».