Stopping Wind Turbines and Getting Out of the European Electricity Market: the Shock Proposals of the Former EDF CEO
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Many official voices, including that of the former CEO of EDF, blame renewable energy for blowing up our electricity bills. Where do these accusations come from and are they valid?
On 24 June 2025, Henri Proglio, former CEO of EDF, set up a frontal petition against the current functioning of the electricity market in France. By attacking the pillars of the system — the European market, the ARENH, renewable energies — he proposes to put EDF back at the heart of a state, sovereign, nuclear-based model. A breach assumed with the government's strategy. EDF must abandon wind turbines For Henri Proglio, the diagnosis is without …
On 24 June 2025, Henri Proglio presented a series of radical proposals aimed at deeply reorganizing EDF. Former CEO of EDF between 2009 and 2014, he violently criticizes the current dependence on the European electricity market, rejects the system of ARENH (Regulated access to historical nuclear electricity) and advocates a massive return to nuclear power. Declarations that revive a fundamental debate: Does EDF still have to operate under the ru…
Henri Proglio is campaigning for a halt to renewable energies and the current EPR2 programme. He recommends the design of a new medium-power reactor model.
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