Temelin’s enlargement future looks even less certain after Centrica Plc bailed out of the plan to build atomic plants in the U.K. on Feb. 4. A day later, Electricite de France SA threatened to do the same unless the U.K. government ensures the project is profitable, BBG wrote today. That doesn’t bode well for CEZ, which has cited the U.K. model of government support as an inspiration. The Czech utility is asking the government, its majority shareholder, to guarantee future purchase price of electricity to ensure that it gets return on its investment, CFO Martin Novak said in a Feb. 1 interview in the Bloomberg office. “The negotiations have only just started,” Novak said. / We see no market and financial logic behind Temelin enlargement without guarantee of future purchase price at the moment as German wholesale power prices have more than halved since 2008 as the economic crisis cut demand and wind turbines and solar panels increased supply, while a slump in EU carbon permits to a record low has removed much of nuclear’s advantage over fossil fuels