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Internal emails also suggested senior managers were concerned at criticising price rises by the French-owned EDF at a time when the charity was on a shortlist for funding from it worth £600,000 over three years.

Investec believes this will be difficult for EDF at a time when a new French energy law means the company must close some of its power stations while being encouraged to bail out its troubled engineering partner, Areva, through a merger.

The French president, François Hollande, told UK PM David Cameron last week that he wanted to see Hinkley go ahead, but he has loaded EDF with added financial responsibilities at a time when it could least manage them.

EDF, at the time fully state owned, ordered nuclear stations and operated them to provide French industry and consumers with relatively cheap energy, allowing further prowess such as the high-speed trains.

"The longer than expected outages at some of EDF's nuclear plants place additional pressure on the company at a time that it is already under significant financial stress," said Jim Watson, research director at the UK Energy Research Centre.

But alarm has grown inside EDF, which is 85% owned by the French government, about the scale of its future financial commitments and debts at a time of plunging power prices and difficulties with other projects.

EDF is under tremendous pressurefrom inside the company to stop but also to proceed, with the British government desperate to avoid a flagship energy project being abandoned at a time when few other schemes seem to be going right.

It is thought that the July offer from EDF was scuppered by opposition from institutional investors such as Invesco, which are said to have argued that the price undervalued BE at a time when the value of energy assets was rising.

If ministers fail to introduce a taper that would see the guaranteed price drop for every year the project falls behind that 2025 deadline, the government will be giving EDF a blank cheque to delay the project – and guaranteeing that the public will pick up the tab to pay premium price at a time when we do not have the premium need.

EDF*OFF, a group set up to campaign against the dominance of the big six suppliers, says the Beckers row is deeply embarrassing for the HMRC at a time when it is trying to rebuild public trust following the departure of former head, Dave Hartnett, after signing much-criticised sweetheart tax deals with Goldman Sachs and then joining HSBC.

EDF said at the time it could not give an exact date for their return to service until investigations were completed, estimated to take "around eight weeks".