The “copper plate” rule appeared in 1998, long before the phaseout of nuclear and the move to wind power. Your argument completely confuses cause and effect: the reason why wind was pursued was because the market model made it look like it was the most economically efficient.
Thinking that someone made a plot to favor wind against more than a decade in advance by designing the market this way is laughable.
And by the way, I'm French and your point about my country couldn't be more inaccurate: the market rules are equally absurd, if not worse, the only reason the system works the way it does is that EDF is big enough (both in terms of electricity production and economic power) to be able to perform the central damage control. It severely affects their ability to make profits though (which is why the company was pulled back from the stock exchange).
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Gosh, what kind of conspiracy theory is that?!
The “copper plate” rule appeared in 1998, long before the phaseout of nuclear and the move to wind power. Your argument completely confuses cause and effect: the reason why wind was pursued was because the market model made it look like it was the most economically efficient.
Thinking that someone made a plot to favor wind against more than a decade in advance by designing the market this way is laughable.
And by the way, I'm French and your point about my country couldn't be more inaccurate: the market rules are equally absurd, if not worse, the only reason the system works the way it does is that EDF is big enough (both in terms of electricity production and economic power) to be able to perform the central damage control. It severely affects their ability to make profits though (which is why the company was pulled back from the stock exchange).