With the return of cold, here comes the return of coal. The Émile-Huchet coal-fired power station in Saint-Avold (Moselle), which was shut down last March, started generating electricity again on Monday morning. Temperatures, relatively mild so far, now “seasonal and we’ve been called into production this Monday from 9am.”said Philip Lenglart, director of the website.
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The CO2-emitting Émile-Huchet power station, one of the last in the French fleet to run on coal, was due to close its doors for good at the end of March. But in late spring, the government reconsidered its decision to secure the country’s electricity supply in light of the conflict in Ukraine and the failures of EDF’s nuclear fleet. He insisted that Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to close all coal-fired power plants in France. “unchanged”.
GazelEnergie, which operates the Saint-Avold site, has had to recall employees who took advantage of the severance program. To do this, he had to pay a generous salary and return bonuses for the duration of the winter. The executive even had to introduce an affordability law voted in early August to allow GazelEnergie to rehire its employees. More than half had to retire, and the youngest had to be reassigned to new projects in the company.
In total, more than 500,000 tonnes of coal will be needed by the end of March to run the site, which produces up to 600 megawatt hours (MWh) at full capacity and could supply a third of the region’s homes. Big East. Another coal-fired power plant continues to operate in France. It is located in Cordemais (Loire-Atlantique) and is operated by EDF. On Monday, coal plants produced about 3% of France’s electricity, compared with about 60% for nuclear power and between 5% and 10% for wind power.
Source: Le Figaro
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