EDF contracts with Amazon to manage maintenance planning for nuclear power plants

Franceinfo learned on Tuesday from EDF that the French energy company has signed a contract with Amazon to plan the maintenance of nuclear power plants.

EDF has signed a contract with Amazon to manage the maintenance planning of nuclear power plants, franceinfo learned on Tuesday February 13, from EDF, confirming information from Le Canard chainé.

For this, the French energy company selected Amazon Web Services, the IT services subsidiary of the American group, a few months ago. The objective, for EDF, is to modernize part of its general information system, management, with a view to the development of the French nuclear fleet. But Amazon is not the only one to have been chosen to complement the company’s internal skills.

A contract locked within the framework of European rules

EDF specifies that this information has been public from the start by the people who are interested in the matter. The selected companies, and those which were not, are informed and free to communicate or not.

The group insists that this contract is strictly locked within the framework of European rules. He adds that he will not make any comments either on the content of the contract or on the financial dimensions, this information being covered by commercial and industrial secrecy.

For its part, the Ministry of the Economy ensures that the rules in force today on sovereign IT management only concern administrations, and not manufacturers. Bruno Le Maire explains that the government’s objective is to ramp up French offers capable of competing with large American groups.

The main industrial players concerned note and regret that today, no French offer is capable of competing with the Americans to support a company like EDF. Bercy also ensures that “actions are being carried out in this direction as part of the France 2030 cloud strategy”.