Every Thursday morning, at 8 a.m. sharp, a man passes his briefcase under the security gate of the Hotel de Roquelaure on Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris. Imposing stature, close-cropped hair, Cédric Lewandowski, executive director of EDF, is the most powerful leader of the group after its CEO. This man with infinite networks was, in a previous life, the indispensable right arm of Jean-Yves Le Drian at the Ministry of the Armed Forces, before joining EDF and becoming, in 2019, the person in charge of the 56 nuclear reactors of the country.
But, since May, Lewandowski has been asked to come in person to report on the evolution of EDF’s electricity production to the cabinet of the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher. “A humiliation”recognizes a government adviser, who has the value of” Warning “ for the whole EDF house: “My goal is to build trust without avoiding bad news”warns the Minister, who must pass in quick succession through Parliament her law on the acceleration of the production of renewable energies, adopted at first reading by the Assembly on January 10, then that on the acceleration of nuclear power, which arrived in the Senate on January 17.
The ” takeover “ of EDF was decreed by Emmanuel Macron in February 2022, at the same time as the relaunch of the French nuclear program. This immediately resulted in the early departure of the CEO of EDF, Jean-Bernard Lévy, whose mandate would run
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