EDF and Paprec have submitted a bid to convert EDF's 1.2 GW Cordemais coal-fired power plant to biomass in Loire-Atlantique (western France). A call for expressions of interest for the Ecocombust project was launched by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition in February 2022. The construction of a facility to produce wood pellets on the Cordemais site is expected to start in early 2023 and commissioning is scheduled in 2025.
Previously, EDF cancelled the Ecocombust project in July 2021 because of its cost and after the withdrawal of Suez from the partnership. The company will continue to operate the Cordemais coal-fired power plant until at least 2024, and the commissioning of the EPR nuclear reactor at Flamanville, in Normandy. According to the multi-annual energy plan to 2028 (Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie, PPE), France was expected to end coal-fired generation in 2022.
In March 2022, GazelEnergie, an affiliate of the Czech energy group EPH, shut down the 600 MW Emile Huchet-6 coal-fired plant in Saint-Avold in Moselle. The power plant will be converted into biomass power plant and a green hydrogen production site, under the terms of an agreement signed with Storengy (Engie group); the biomass-fired power plant is expected in 2024 and first hydrogen activities between 2026 and 2029.
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