News Summary

• Electricite de France SA faces an in-depth probe by European Union competition enforcers into a €72.8 billion ($83.5 billion) plan to built six nuclear reactors.
• The European Commission said Tuesday it will check whether the financing may give state-owned EDF an unfair advantage.
• France is at the forefront of trying to usher in a nuclear renaissance in Europe, with the technology seen as providing a crucial source of clean “baseload” power for times when wind or solar fails to provide enough to meet demand.