Competitiveness of Energy Sources for Electricity Production

Speaker: Didier Beutier, Vice-President for Economic & Prospective Studies, Corporate Strategy Department, AREVA

Today, with the rising prices of energy, the increasingly pressing climate change challenge and a new security of supply environment, it is becoming necessary for Europe to assess which energy policies will provide electricity to consumers at the best possible price while ensuring its accessibility and sustainability.

The price of electricity is essential to the consumers and citizens’ purchasing power, as well as to the energy intensive businesses’ competitiveness and employment.

The European Commission adopted on the 8 March 2006 its Green Paper on a strategy for a sustainable, competitive and secure European energy policy. One of its proposals is to analyse the advantages and drawbacks of all energy sources with a standard methodology.

The purpose of this event is therefore to contribute from an economic point of view to the reflection on this idea by making a comparative analysis of the cost competitiveness of the various energy sources for electricity production.