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The price of electricity today

The day-ahead auction result, in Paris time.

Interval by interval

Average price today 221.77€/MWh 0.222 €/kWh now 209.57€/MWh interval 21:45–22:00 Tomorrow 212.32€/MWh auction published Last 30 days 158.67€/MWh average weighted by duration

Grid snapshot

Demand, generation and balance, updated every minute.

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

National consumption
51,363MW
▲ +6,518 MW vs a day ago
Domestic production
54,267MW
Covers all national consumption; the 2,903 MW surplus (5.7%) goes to export.
▲ +5,042 MW vs a day ago
Exporting now
2,984MW
Measured on the interconnectors: 5.5% of current production flows to neighbours.
▲ +2,091 MW vs a day ago
Solar production
190MW
0.4% of current production.
▲ +190 MW vs a day ago
Nuclear now
36,945MW
68.1% of production, baseload.
Day-ahead price
209.6EUR/MWh
CO₂ estimated
76g/kWhestimated

Physical cross-border flows

Electricity measured crossing every border in September 2026, valued at this zone's day-ahead price.

96.1% of the month's hours measured

Physical exports 8,697,880 MWh estimated market value 1,225,256,530 €, at 140.87 €/MWh
Physical imports 1,066,893 MWh estimated market value 149,551,757 €, at 140.18 €/MWh
Estimated market value 1,075,704,772 € the month averaged 143.30 €/MWh
Border with Out, MWh at €/MWh In, MWh at €/MWh Difference €
Italy 3,583,448 142.68 8,294 -0.12 511,302,544
Germany 1,620,126 162.41 234,031 114.45 236,341,288
United Kingdom 986,505 119.91 260,472 148.70 79,559,584
Spain 780,038 137.26 395,852 144.23 49,977,402
Belgium 938,790 137.12 64,306 128.61 120,459,367
Switzerland 788,975 122.61 103,938 179.63 78,064,587

1,075,704,772 € for 7,630,987 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 140.97 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 143.30.

  • Energy that stayed, at the month's average price −1,093,503,664 101.7%
  • What came in arrived above that average −3,331,669 0.3%
  • What went out left below it 21,130,560 -2.0%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 17,798,891 € together — come not from how much moved but from when: cheap hours to sell in, expensive hours to buy in. That is the price of a timing mismatch, not a loss.

Official validation AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA

Physical cross-border flows and commercial electricity trades measure different phenomena. ANRE data is shown as an independent official benchmark and should not be interpreted as an exact reconciliation.

All months, every border

Not an invoice. Cross-border electricity is not sold country to country: the markets are coupled and the physical flow is the outcome of a shared auction. These figures value the measured flow at this zone's own day-ahead price, so both directions can be compared on the same scale.

Flows are measured, quarter-hour by quarter-hour; hourly borders are spread across the four quarters they cover, so every megawatt-hour meets the price that was actually in force. Energy entering the country is not the same as energy consumed here — some of it passes through.

Who we sold energy to

Who we sold energy to when they needed it — last 30 days

data for the last 30 days · 30 days covered

  • Italy 3,829.17 GWh
    2,688 MW on average · 43.9%
  • Germany 1,322.22 GWh
    835 MW on average · 15.2%
  • Switzerland 1,057.27 GWh
    1,722 MW on average · 12.1%
  • Belgium 975.97 GWh
    1,545 MW on average · 11.2%
  • United Kingdom 877.06 GWh
    2,064 MW on average · 10.1%
  • Spain 661.36 GWh
    1,657 MW on average · 7.6%

What we sent our neighbours, per border. Energy summed from quarter-hour averages over the days actually covered by the archive. The average power is over the hours in which it flowed this way, not over every hour. A country can appear in both lists: with the same neighbour we import in some hours and export in others.

Who we bought energy from

Who sold us energy when we needed it — last 30 days

data for the last 30 days · 30 days covered

  • Spain 371.19 GWh
    1,158 MW on average · 32.4%
  • United Kingdom 325.73 GWh
    1,172 MW on average · 28.5%
  • Germany 320.76 GWh
    558 MW on average · 28.0%
  • Switzerland 77.08 GWh
    734 MW on average · 6.7%
  • Belgium 40.66 GWh
    462 MW on average · 3.6%
  • Italy 8.62 GWh
    616 MW on average · 0.8%

What our neighbours sent us, per border. Energy summed from quarter-hour averages over the days actually covered by the archive. The average power is over the hours in which it flowed this way, not over every hour. A country can appear in both lists: with the same neighbour we import in some hours and export in others.

Energy sources

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

Nuclear
36,945MW
68.1% of total
Natural gas
5,410MW
10.0% of total
Onshore wind
4,414MW
8.1% of total
Hydro reservoir
2,199MW
4.1% of total
Run-of-river hydro
2,019MW
3.7% of total
Pumped-storage hydro
1,127MW
2.1% of total
Oil
882MW
1.6% of total
Waste
409MW
0.8% of total
Offshore wind
394MW
0.7% of total
Biomass
277MW
0.5% of total
Solar
190MW
0.4% of total
Other sources
1MW
0.0% of total

Source shares

Every source, with its share and the emission factor used in the carbon estimate.

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

Nuclear: 36945 MW Natural gas: 5410 MW Onshore wind: 4414 MW Hydro reservoir: 2199 MW Run-of-river hydro: 2019 MW Pumped-storage hydro: 1127 MW Oil: 882 MW Waste: 409 MW Offshore wind: 394 MW Biomass: 277 MW 54,267 MW total
  • Nuclear 68% 36,945MW
    Renewable
    no
    Emission factor
    12 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    8.2 g/kWh
  • Natural gas 10% 5,410MW
    Renewable
    no
    Emission factor
    490 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    48.9 g/kWh
  • Onshore wind 8% 4,414MW
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    11 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.9 g/kWh
  • Hydro reservoir 4% 2,199MW
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    24 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    1.0 g/kWh
  • Run-of-river hydro 4% 2,019MW
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    24 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.9 g/kWh
  • Pumped-storage hydro 2% 1,127MW
    Renewable
    no — storage, not generation: the energy was counted once, when the water was pumped
    Emission factor
    0 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.0 g/kWh
  • Oil 2% 882MW
    Renewable
    no
    Emission factor
    650 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    10.6 g/kWh
  • Waste 1% 409MW
    Renewable
    no — incineration is partly fossil, and the biogenic fraction is not published separately
    Emission factor
    580 g CO₂eq/kWh · weak factor, the figure is fragile
    Adds to the national average
    4.4 g/kWh
  • Offshore wind 1% 394MW
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    12 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.1 g/kWh
  • Biomass 1% 277MW
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    230 g CO₂eq/kWh · weak factor, the figure is fragile
    Adds to the national average
    1.2 g/kWh
  • Solar 0% 190MW
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    45 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.2 g/kWh
  • Other sources 0% 1MW
    Renewable
    no
    Emission factor
    490 g CO₂eq/kWh · weak factor, the figure is fragile
    Adds to the national average
    0.0 g/kWh

Renewable energy

Share of clean sources in total production.

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

Onshore wind: 4414 MW · Hydro reservoir: 2199 MW · Run-of-river hydro: 2019 MW · Offshore wind: 394 MW · Biomass: 277 MW · Solar: 190 MW 17,5% of production
  • Onshore wind4,414 MW
  • Hydro reservoir2,199 MW
  • Run-of-river hydro2,019 MW
  • Offshore wind394 MW
  • Biomass277 MW
  • Solar190 MW

Energy radar

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

9.236 18.472 27.708 36.945 Solar: 190 MW Wind: 4808 MW Hydro: 5345 MW Nuclear: 36945 MW Gas: 6292 MW Coal: 0 MW Solar Wind Hydro Nuclear Gas Coal
Spain 2.966 MW export Italy 2.137 MW export Belgium 1.029 MW import Germany 681 MW import Switzerland 356 MW import United Kingdom 52 MW import FRANCE cross-border energy flows THE NATIONAL POWER SYSTEM IN ITS REGIONAL CONNECTIONS Import into France (energy coming in) Export from France (energy going out) Total cross-border exchange 7.221 MW Import 2.118 MW Export 5.103 MW 0 50 100 200 km N

The arrows and figures are measurements, as of 19 October at 19:00. The transmission grid is not shown: we do not have its routes for this country yet.

Exchanges with neighbours

Green = France exports, orange = France imports.

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

Spain Spain: 2966 MW Italy Italy: 2137 MW Belgium Belgium: 1029 MW Germany Germany: 681 MW Switzerland Switzerland: 356 MW United Kingdom United Kingdom: 52 MW 0

The price right now, across Europe

The interval in progress, live data from right now, in every bidding zone we have a price for.

live data · as of 19/10/2026, 21:45:00

France is 26 of 46, counting from the dearest. Average across zones: 232 EUR/MWh.

  1. 1 AL 419EUR/MWh
  2. 1 XK 419EUR/MWh
  3. 3 SK 401EUR/MWh
  4. 4 HU 397EUR/MWh
  5. 5 RS 389EUR/MWh
  6. 6 RO 370EUR/MWh
  7. 7 BG 366EUR/MWh
  8. 7 GR 366EUR/MWh
  9. 9 MK 340EUR/MWh
  10. 10 ME 330EUR/MWh
  11. 11 HR 326EUR/MWh
  12. 12 IT (CALABRIA) 307EUR/MWh
  13. 12 IT (CENTRE_NORTH) 307EUR/MWh
  14. 12 IT (CENTRE_SOUTH) 307EUR/MWh
  15. 12 IT (NORTH) 307EUR/MWh
  16. 12 IT (SARDINIA) 307EUR/MWh
  17. 12 IT (SICILY) 307EUR/MWh
  18. 12 IT (SOUTH) 307EUR/MWh
  19. 12 SI 307EUR/MWh
  20. 20 PT 294EUR/MWh
  21. 21 IE 272EUR/MWh
  22. 22 AT 252EUR/MWh
  23. 23 CH 238EUR/MWh
  24. 24 ES 237EUR/MWh
  25. 25 BE 211EUR/MWh
  26. 26 FR 210EUR/MWh
  27. 27 DE and LU 180EUR/MWh
  28. 28 SE (SE4) 178EUR/MWh
  29. 29 DK (DK1) 176EUR/MWh
  30. 30 DK (DK2) 173EUR/MWh
  31. 31 NO (NO2) 170EUR/MWh
  32. 32 LT 165EUR/MWh
  33. 32 LV 165EUR/MWh
  34. 34 NL 164EUR/MWh
  35. 35 NO (NO1) 158EUR/MWh
  36. 36 NO (NO5) 154EUR/MWh
  37. 37 PL 143EUR/MWh
  38. 38 CZ 130EUR/MWh
  39. 39 NO (NO3) 116EUR/MWh
  40. 40 SE (SE3) 101EUR/MWh
  41. 41 EE 80EUR/MWh
  42. 42 TR 54EUR/MWh
  43. 43 SE (SE2) 51EUR/MWh
  44. 44 NO (NO4) 21EUR/MWh
  45. 45 FI 5EUR/MWh
  46. 46 SE (SE1) 4EUR/MWh

Wholesale prices for the interval covering this moment, bidding zone by bidding zone — countries with several zones appear once per zone, with its code in brackets. The average is arithmetic across zones, not weighted by demand: a small zone counts as much as a large one. The figures exclude network tariffs, excise duty and VAT.

What balancing cost, in the last 24 hours

The source for this country does not publish this dataset. Nothing is estimated in its place.

Who consumes: the base, the work rhythm, the day

An estimate from the shape of the consumption curve, not a measurement by customer category — that is not published in real time. Three parts: what never stops, what runs in shifts on working days, what switches on during the day.

archive up to 19/10/2026, 18:00:00

The base, non-stop
32,997MW
74.7% of the week's average · the Sunday-night floor: fridges, servers, installations that never stop
The work rhythm
2,838MW
6.4% of the week's average · how much more a working night carries than a Sunday night: the shifts
The day
8,361MW
18.9% of the week's average · what exceeds the working-night floor, on average: offices, shops, homes awake

Over the last seven days consumption averaged 44,196 MW and ranged between 34,118 and 55,707 MW.

How it was measured: the median of the 02–05 hours over 8 Sunday mornings (32,997 MW) and over 31 working mornings, Tuesday to Friday (35,835 MW), across the last 8 weeks; the average over the last seven days. The parts are cut from one another in order and add up exactly to the average.

The parts are shapes of the curve, not customer categories: the base holds every household's fridge as well as a plant that never stops; the day holds single-shift factories too. “Industrial” and “household” would be words these data cannot defend.

The operator's consumption forecast

How much the country is expected to consume, hour by hour, according to the forecast the transmission operator publishes for today and tomorrow. The line is the forecast; the bars, consumption measured so far.

forecast issued 19/10/2026, 21:41:18 · ENTSO-E

Operator's forecast Measured consumption, hourly average
0 25,000 50,000 75,000 100,000 00:00 — 43,119 MW 01:00 — 41,564 MW 02:00 — 39,339 MW 03:00 — 37,471 MW 04:00 — 37,450 MW 05:00 — 39,675 MW 06:00 — 43,917 MW 07:00 — 48,688 MW 08:00 — 52,255 MW 09:00 — 53,916 MW 10:00 — 54,615 MW 11:00 — 55,133 MW 12:00 — 55,707 MW 13:00 — 54,009 MW 14:00 — 54,407 MW 15:00 — 52,615 MW 16:00 — 50,537 MW 17:00 — 50,089 MW 18:00 — 52,978 MW 19:00 — 56,219 MW 20:00 — 53,092 MW today tomorrow now 00 06 12 18 00 06 12 18
Today's peak
56,000MW
at 12:00
Today's low
38,000MW
at 04:00
Next hour
47,700MW
at 22:00
Tomorrow's peak
55,600MW
at 12:00

The forecast is the transmission operator's, published on its own platform — not a model of ours. It is revised during the day; for each hour the latest issue is shown. The running hour, in the bars, only shows what has accumulated so far.

Units out of service

Unavailable capacity, now and over the next two weeks

1,848 MW out now

Unit Lost Period
MONTEZICPumped-storage hydro 910 MW 30 Oct – 30 Oct announced
MONTEZICPumped-storage hydro 910 MW 29 Oct – 29 Oct announced
MONTEZICPumped-storage hydro 910 MW 21 Oct – 21 Oct announced
REVINPumped-storage hydro 800 MW 22 Oct – 22 Oct announced
REVINPumped-storage hydro 800 MW 28 Oct – 28 Oct announced
REVINPumped-storage hydro 800 MW 28 Oct – 28 Oct announced
REVINPumped-storage hydro 800 MW 27 Oct – 27 Oct announced
COMPAGNIE ELECTRIQUE DE BRETAGNENatural gas 446 MW 30 Oct – 1 Nov announced
SAINT AVOLD 7Natural gas 435 MW 14 Jul – 24 Oct forced
SERRE PONCONHydro reservoir 384 MW 21 Oct – 21 Oct announced

and 62 more

How much prosumers produce right now

The source for this country does not publish this dataset. Nothing is estimated in its place.

Today's solar, hour by hour

Measured hourly average for the current local day. The running hour only shows what has accumulated so far.

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

3954 7907 00:00 — 0 MW 01:00 — 0 MW 02:00 — 0 MW 03:00 — 0 MW 04:00 — 0 MW 05:00 — 0 MW 06:00 — 0 MW 07:00 — 183 MW 08:00 — 379 MW 09:00 — 2147 MW 10:00 — 4786 MW 11:00 — 6886 MW 12:00 — 7907 MW 13:00 — 7665 MW 14:00 — 6822 MW 15:00 — 5595 MW 16:00 — 3976 MW 17:00 — 2155 MW 18:00 — 744 MW 19:00 — 247 MW 20:00 — 203 MW 00 06 12 18 23

Today's wind, hour by hour

Measured hourly average for the current local day. The running hour only shows what has accumulated so far.

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

2363 4727 00:00 — 1743 MW 01:00 — 1626 MW 02:00 — 1707 MW 03:00 — 1708 MW 04:00 — 1682 MW 05:00 — 1697 MW 06:00 — 1848 MW 07:00 — 2117 MW 08:00 — 2534 MW 09:00 — 2712 MW 10:00 — 2771 MW 11:00 — 2578 MW 12:00 — 2384 MW 13:00 — 2305 MW 14:00 — 2335 MW 15:00 — 2717 MW 16:00 — 3245 MW 17:00 — 3668 MW 18:00 — 3726 MW 19:00 — 4181 MW 20:00 — 4727 MW 00 06 12 18 23

Today's storage, hour by hour

Deduced, not read from a key: the generation the feed includes in its total without itemising — by its behaviour, battery discharge. The bar is the hour's average, the dotted line the hour's peak power.

delayed data · as of 19/10/2026, 20:45:00

202 404 00:00 — 15 MW 01:00 — 12 MW 02:00 — 4 MW 03:00 — 2 MW 04:00 — 12 MW 05:00 — 4 MW 06:00 — 30 MW 07:00 — 178 MW 08:00 — 344 MW 09:00 — 182 MW 10:00 — 17 MW 11:00 — 5 MW 12:00 — 3 MW 13:00 — 129 MW 14:00 — 32 MW 15:00 — 3 MW 16:00 — 49 MW 17:00 — 167 MW 18:00 — 65 MW 19:00 — 82 MW 20:00 — 43 MW MW — vârf 00 06 12 18 23

The Transelectrica feed has no storage key. The figure is the difference between the published total and the named sources: constant at night, near zero by day — the behaviour of a discharging battery. It is a deduction labelled as such, not a measurement.

How we estimated 76 g CO₂/kWh

This is an estimate, not a measurement. There is no official carbon-intensity measurement for this country, so we compute it from the production mix.

Σ(source generation × source factor) / Σ(generation), over positive values, with life-cycle factors.

The factors are life-cycle values — they include construction and fuel, not just combustion. That is why solar, wind and nuclear are not zero. Source: IPCC AR5 WG3, Anexa III, Tabelul A.III.2 (mediane), version 1.

SourceMWg/kWh
Nuclear36,94512
Natural gas5,410490
Onshore wind4,41411
Hydro reservoir2,19924
Run-of-river hydro2,01924
Pumped-storage hydro1,1270
Oil882650
Waste409580
Offshore wind39412
Biomass277230
Solar19045
Other sources1490

Energy news

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The generation fleet, 2026

Installed capacity by source, as the operator reports it.

Installed capacity 163,611MW reported for 2026 Cleaner energy for tomorrow
Renewables 46.1% 75,430 MW
Largest source Nuclear 38.5%
Against 2025 +6,916 MW
Source Capacity (MW) Of total
Nuclear 62,990 38.5%
Solar 28,254+5,394 17.3%
Onshore wind 23,672+765 14.5%
Natural gas 12,801+13 7.8%
Run-of-river hydro 11,748+11 7.2%
Hydro reservoir 8,791 5.4%
Pumped-storage hydro 5,061 3.1%
Oil 2,986+7 1.8%
Hard coal 1,811 1.1%
Offshore wind 1,528+500 0.9%
Other sources 1,492+226 0.9%
Biomass 1,435+22 0.9%
Waste 1,040−23 0.6%
Geothermal 2 0.0%
All the capacity statistics
How the renewable share is computed

Σ(renewable sources, positive values only) / Σ(all sources, positive only).

Numerator: Onshore wind, Hydro reservoir, Run-of-river hydro, Offshore wind, Biomass, Solar.

Denominator: 54,267 MW.

Pumped-storage hydro and waste are not counted as renewable — the first would double-count energy, the second is partly fossil and its biogenic fraction cannot honestly be separated.

Consumption — 24 hours

24 hours 48 hours 7 days 30 days 90 days 1 year all
40,00050,000 10:00 PM09:30 AM08:45 PM

92 points, PT5M resolution. Long ranges are served from precomputed aggregates — a one-year chart from per-minute data would push hundreds of thousands of points into the browser for nothing. Our archive starts at 2015-01-01 00:00 UTC.

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