French utility EDF plans to sell another 20 percent stake in Britain's nuclear power operator British Energy as part of a five-billion-euro (7.35-billion-dollar) asset sale, a report said on Monday.
The economic news daily La Tribune said the sale would also help meet EU conditions set in 2008 when Brussels cleared EDF's acquisition of British Energy.
Such a sale would also mean that EDF would no longer need to sell part of its RTE transport operations, which could have proved problematic with unions and on the political front, La Tribune said in an unsourced report.
When asked about the report, an EDF spokeswoman said the issue was not being actively discussed at this point.
EDF acquired British Energy in September 2008 for 15 billion euros and subsequently sold a 20-percent stake in the company to British power group Centrica for 2.5 billion euros.
EDF said after the Centrica deal that it planned further asset sales worth about five billion euros in order to reduce its debt burden of 24.5 billion euros.
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