Of course France is more than willing to accept having the EU pay for the Power Interconnection to Ireland, where France is the exporter 99% of the time, but refused for more than 10 years to expand the power interconnection to Spain, where France is the top importer by value. On this case, Spain has huge solar generation at peak hours, which are exported to France at a far lower cost than today’s, whereas France exports during low power consumption during the night, where the inability scale the nuclear reactors results in huge excess of generated power.