Electricité de France SA has stopped work on about half of the new solar-energy generating projects it had planned, Le Figaro reported.
An unidentified EDF spokesman described the projects as no longer economical because the government was suspending preferential tariffs for solar-generated electricity, the newspaper said.
EDF has frozen construction of about 800 megawatts out of a planned 1,600 megawatts in solar generating capacity because the work could not be completed within 18 months, Le Figaro said.
