What will it cost leaving the nuclear scheduled as early as 2015 and to be completed in 2025?

Regulatory Commission for Electricity and Gas (CREG) has published in September 2010 a study evaluating the increase of the electricity price. CREG has updated this study by considering two scenarios (closure of the three oldest reactors or extinction).

Depending on the scenario, the annual mark paid by the average customer should vary between 5 and 19%.

These figures are however challenged by advocates of renewable energy, which consider that this figure does not include indirect costs of nuclear power, or its environmental costs.

Others note that the system establishing the price of electricity is outdated and ridiculous, the index is much higher than the actual increases in cost.

One thing is certain, the output of nuclear power will require a major investment in the transformation of the electricity production base. The "Bureau du plan" released this week a study that figure this investment at 20 billion over twenty years.

Additional capacity of 840 megawatts (the equivalent of two gas plants) should be placed on the market each year between 2011 and 2030 to compensate the closure of nuclear power plants and meet the growing demand for electricity.

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Source: Le soir

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