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Excerpt from article by Jack Dion, Marianne 2, Tuesday, June 8, 2010; http://www.marianne2.fr/Les-clients-d-EDF-pris-en-otage-par- the-integration-of-marche_a193846.html

"With the nationalization of EDF, a legacy of the liberation, France has long been proud of owning a business, effective public. Of course, sometimes the machine was running in the lobby, listening to the little alternative voices (especially in the nuclear field), but roughly it provided its customers with current rates unmatched in Europe ; the country, an enviable energy independence, its employees, a significant social status.

Only here: Mammoths of the Committee Brussels launched the hunt for public monopolies, and thus to EDF. In this capacity he had to liberalize the electricity market in 2007, on behalf of " free and undistorted competition ," as they say in these people. The case had not proved conclusively, in their eyes, EDF will have to make a little room for competitors in such conditions that the consumer will pay.

The National Assembly therefore considers the proposed reform of the electricity market from today. It is a small bomb. Currently, EDF generates electricity at a price of 34 € the megawatt / hour. The few private operators that have launched on the market (as Poweo, GDF Suez Energy Direct) are unable to match these fares. The idea is to force EDF to sell a quarter of its electricity from nuclear power to its competitors at a price favorable enough for them to dive into the deep end of the " free competition and not distorted "by cutting cruppers the company public.

But he'll have someone compensates for the shortfall for EDF. This will be the consumer. In fact, experts Regulatory Commission (CRE) have already scheduled a soaring electricity prices by 11.4% after the passage of the law, then 3.5% per year, or up to 25% by 2015. All for the emergence of companies able one day to equal match with EDF, as if the energy market was a kind of tournament Roland Garros electricity. Moreover, it is a basic principle: wherever the electricity market was privatized, prices have increased. "