France Adopts Law to Ease EDF Grip on Hydropower Market, Spur Investment on New Generation Capacity
The reform ends more than a decade of EU pressure and opens auctions to manufacturers as EDF plans to sell 6 gigawatts a year.
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Hydroelectricity: a Reform Adopted by Parliament Paves the Way for Renewed Investment in French Dams
The text adopted on Wednesday by the deputies, after the Senate on Tuesday, transforms the legal regime of large hydropower plants. It allows to settle a dispute between France and the European Union, which was hindering a sector crucial for the country's electricity production.
France breaks EDF hydropower monopoly with new auction law
France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydropower market for decades, according to Bloomberg. The law converts EDF’s hydropower concessions into permits and requires the state-owned utility to auction 6 gigawatts of capacity each year under the supervision of France’s energy regulator, CRE. EDF […] This story continues at The Next Web
On Wednesday, 17 June, the National Assembly adopted the text avoiding the reopening of the concessions of the dams of EDF. The electrician will be able to invest in additional capacities but will have to auction part of his hydraulic electricity.
A bill has just been adopted. France has never been so close to a green light from Brussels to relaunch its investments in its large dams.
A reform expected to unlock hydraulic investments The French Parliament finally adopted, Wednesday 17 June 2026, a bill that revived investments in hydropower. The National Assembly approved the text by 290 votes to 59, ending fifteen years of legal deadlock. A dispute with the European Commission so far paralyzed the modernisation of dams. The country's second source of electricity production in 2025 after nuclear power, and the first renewable…
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