It is said that the new EDF chief officially appointed last week is attentive to the “needs” of manufacturers to get out of the blockade with their largest clients, industrialists who claim discounts on the price of electricity.
“I asked my teams to look for space for Maniouver to unlock discussions with industrialists with a simple message:” We understand their problems, their needs and work together, “explains Bernard Fontana in the newspaper Les Echos in their first interview. “EDF has a central role to play to guarantee the industrial and energy sovereignty of France,” he adds.
In recent months, EDF’s discussions with their greatest clients, industrialists, have resorted to the confrontation on the issue of electricity price, crucial for its competitiveness, within the framework of new contracts destined to assume the position of the very favorable mechanism, which until now have December 31, 2025. Terms of mandate.
“The energy crisis is behind us”
Bernard Fontana emphasizes that “the energy crisis is behind us”, with wholesale prices in five years of 34% since November 2023, which makes it possible to offer more competitive electricity. “French clients have the cheapest electricity in the world,” he said.
To this is added efforts made by the group to leave the confrontation on the signing of long -term contracts. “We are in a logic of association with our clients and we have identified a possible space for the maneuver in the lead (deposits, note of the editor), shared risks or the prices of certain elements of the offer,” he added. For example, this is to “soften” fees on time instead of requesting a signature payment.
Agreement with the long term with Dunkirk Aluminium, a greater consumer of electricity in France in one site, two new letters of intention for long-term contracts indexed in nuclear production with the total of 12 … EDF in any case confirmed the acceleration of the discussions on Thursday and are given “summer to sign new contracts with electro-intense industrialists”, according to their CEO.
Source: BFM TV
