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France kicks nuclear ramp-down target into long grass amid power shortage fears
Publication date: 09 November 2017
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France is back peddling on its proposal to cut nuclear’s share of the power mix from 75% to 50% by 2025, after the country’s grid operator RTE warned the plan risked power shortages after 2020, in addition to increasing CO2 emissions, with 11 GW of gas-fired plants required to help fill the void.
The country’s environment minister Nicolas Hulot said the government’s plan to cut nuclear power by 25% over the next eight years was...