Engie information appeals to cancel Dalkia contract | EUROtoday

Symbolically, it’s a essential subject, pitting two of France’s major power firms towards one another. On December 17, 2025, after greater than two years of requires tenders, the Paris Council made its choice: it awarded the longer term concession for the capital’s warmth community to a 100% subsidiary of EDF, Dalkia, as a part of a consortium with Eiffage and RATP Solutions Ville. Not a small contract: a quarter-century concession from 2027, for an estimated worth of 15 billion euros.

But now, Engie (previously GDF) intends to counter-attack, with the hope of suspending this allocation, to maintain this community managed till then by one in every of its subsidiaries, the Parisian Urban Heating Company (CPCU), historic operator since… 1927. Contacted Monday January 26, the group declares “have deposited”on the very finish of final week, “several appeals before the Paris administrative court” in search of the cancellation of the contract received by Dalkia.

The appeals name into query procedural parts, but in addition a key level: Engie considers that the deliberation of Paris advisors didn’t sufficiently bear in mind monetary variations between its file and that of Dalkia. In explicit on the query of the safety deposit that the City of Paris should present. Dalkia’s supply would require a big contribution from public authorities, with a deposit of round 2 billion euros, whereas that of its competitor would fairly require an quantity of 250 million euros. Contacted, the Paris administrative courtroom didn’t element the phrases of the appeals. No greater than Engie. Dalkia, for its half, refrains from any feedback.

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