Until then, Jean-Charles Lunot was deputy regional director of the public company in the Center Val-de-Loire region, a position he has held since 2020. After starting his career at Magneti Marelli, this engineer graduated from Polytech Tours alternated between roles at EDF and within the electricity transmission network manager, which became Enedis. Joining EDF as a quality engineer in Reunion Island, Jean-Charles Lunot became head of the Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur agency at Enedis in 2004, before managing the sales, customer, engineering and connection teams of EDF in Guadeloupe between 2007. and 2011.
Back in France, he returned to the network manager side, becoming head of human resources for the company in Drôme before becoming head of human resources for EDF in Martinique between 2013 and 2017, then deputy to the operations director of the regional management of Enedis in Limousin.
A factory on borrowed time
“I arrive at Cordemais at a particular moment in its history. My commitment will be complete in the individual support of our employees, taking into account their personal situation and finding solutions in line with their professional projects.specifies Jean-Charles Lunot.
Last September, EDF confirmed that it was considering not to continue the project of reconversion to biomass of the thermal power plant. “After analysis, the technical and economic conditions to carry out this project not being met, EDF will not be able to completely substitute pellets for coal,” the group then indicated, who initiated the Ecocombust project with Paprec. The energy company had simultaneously announced its intention to create a factory to prefabricate pipes intended for EPR2 power plants, through its subsidiary Framatome. 80 jobs could be created initially, before possibly increasing to 200. Currently, the Cordemais power plant employs 500 people (EDF employees and service providers). According to the CGT, stopping electricity production would threaten a thousand direct and indirect jobs.
Source: www.usinenouvelle.com
