Rail operators across Europe are under pressure from rising energy prices. SNCF is not an exception. the price of electricity used by the national company has multiplied by five, which represents an additional cost of more than one billion euros in one year. And he’s not the worst. In Germany, Deutsche Bahn had to raise its prices by an average of 5% to cope with the stratospheric increase in the price of electricity, which has multiplied our neighbors by a factor of 10. Sooner or later SNCF will too. to solve that too. We explain why.
Electricity, the train problem
In France, electricity and railways are ancient history. When it was created in 1937, SNCF owned SHEM, the Southern Hydroelectric Company. In 1929, three visionary railway companies, Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi, Compagnie du Paris-Orléans and Voies et chemins de fer Bass, had indeed created a joint venture…
Source: Le Figaro
