French President Emmanuel Macron’s election campaign included a promise to cut nuclear power generation from 72% to 50% by 2025. But reports now suggest that this goal may be impossible to deliver on schedule. Why has reducing reliance on nuclear become so important in France, and what might this promise, if it can be delivered, mean for the wider French energy market ?
In France, this year’s presidential and legislative elections have continued the prevailing theme in western (...)