Sentence examples for left edf from inspiring English sources
But this costly and questionable strategy has left EDF in a precarious financial state.
That has left EDF as the government's only realistic option for the foreseeable future.
But past spending has left EDF ill-placed, just before a share offering,to raise the billions needed to acquire Italenergia, and then Edison.True, the €12 billion often cited as the cost to EDF of the two operations is overstated: Edison's €3.8 billion debt could be rolled forward.
That leaves EDF, which is 85% owned by the French state.
A breakthrough is expected when the Chinese premier visits the UK next month, leaving EDF in a position to finally give the green light to the first nuclear plant to be built in the UK for 20 years.
This is expected to happen when the Chinese premier visits the UK next month, leaving EDF in a position to finally give the green light to the first nuclear plant to be built in the UK for 20 years.
The move follows similar cuts announced by SSE, Scottish Power and E.on last month, and British Gas last year, leaving EDF as the only one of the big six not to have reduced gas prices for customers against a background of a 23 per cent fall in wholesale prices last year.
With EDF left as the only significant bidder for nuclear, the Treasury has been caught in protracted wrangling over the nuclear price - a process that is said to be dragging back the legislation.
The UK's energy future was left up in the air after EDF dodged a decision on Hinkley Point C, the planned nuclear plant that is meant to provide 7 per cent of Britain's electricity and employ 25,000 people by 2025.
The government had planned to build eight new plants, but with French power group EDF the only major bidder left, it is very unlikely this many will be built.
Indeed, the public still laud Electricité de France (EDF) and Gaz de France (GDF) for restoring the nation's light and heat in the war's aftermath a reputation that helped mute the criticism of EDF at the end of 1999 when hurricanes left much of France in prolonged darkness.
