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France

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The price of electricity today

The day-ahead auction result, in Paris time.

Interval by interval

Average price today 130.85€/MWh 0.131 €/kWh now 187.50€/MWh interval 23:45–00:00 Tomorrow 129.94€/MWh auction published Last 30 days 133.91€/MWh average weighted by duration

Grid snapshot

Demand, generation and balance, updated every minute.

delayed data · as of 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

National consumption
40,972MW
▼ −854 MW vs a day ago
Domestic production
46,397MW
Covers all national consumption; the 5,425 MW surplus (13.2%) goes to export.
▼ −1,351 MW vs a day ago
Exporting now
5,412MW
Measured on the interconnectors: 11.7% of current production flows to neighbours.
▲ +6,665 MW vs a day ago
Solar production
0MW
unchanged vs a day ago
Nuclear now
38,258MW
82.5% of production, baseload.
Day-ahead price
187.5EUR/MWh
CO₂ estimated
35g/kWh
estimated

Physical cross-border flows

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

Physical exports 10,274,412 MWh estimated market value 1,247,705,180 €, at 121.44 €/MWh
Physical imports 803,568 MWh estimated market value 88,242,683 €, at 109.81 €/MWh
Estimated market value 1,159,462,497 € the month averaged 122.80 €/MWh
Border with Out, MWh at €/MWh In, MWh at €/MWh Difference €
Italy 3,673,021 124.08 66 23.16 455,758,877
Germany 1,981,874 133.91 371,161 81.31 235,214,553
United Kingdom 1,754,536 101.77 50,196 159.94 170,526,683
Belgium 1,318,499 127.26 17,168 41.13 167,083,122
Switzerland 858,414 109.23 112,880 161.69 75,516,012
Spain 688,068 125.62 252,098 123.27 55,363,250

1,159,462,497 € for 9,470,845 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 122.42 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 122.80.

  • Energy that stayed, at the month's average price −1,163,037,053 100.3%
  • What came in arrived above that average −10,436,892 0.9%
  • What went out left below it 14,011,448 -1.2%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 3,574,556 € 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 · 29 days covered

  • Italy 3,941.06 GWh
    2,896 MW on average · 41.5%
  • Germany 1,602.84 GWh
    1,017 MW on average · 16.9%
  • United Kingdom 1,451.46 GWh
    2,592 MW on average · 15.3%
  • Belgium 1,104.44 GWh
    1,776 MW on average · 11.6%
  • Spain 766.21 GWh
    1,906 MW on average · 8.1%
  • Switzerland 635.11 GWh
    1,265 MW on average · 6.7%

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 · 29 days covered

  • Germany 319.76 GWh
    679 MW on average · 35.9%
  • Spain 275.53 GWh
    986 MW on average · 30.9%
  • Switzerland 134.93 GWh
    722 MW on average · 15.2%
  • United Kingdom 127.20 GWh
    1,043 MW on average · 14.3%
  • Belgium 32.87 GWh
    530 MW on average · 3.7%
  • Italy 0.07 GWh
    66 MW on average · 0.0%

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 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

Nuclear
38,258MW
82.5% of total
Onshore wind
2,093MW
4.5% of total
Run-of-river hydro
1,753MW
3.8% of total
Natural gas
1,519MW
3.3% of total
Pumped-storage hydro
1,024MW
2.2% of total
Hydro reservoir
777MW
1.7% of total
Waste
417MW
0.9% of total
Biomass
288MW
0.6% of total
Offshore wind
226MW
0.5% of total
Oil
36MW
0.1% of total
Other sources
7MW
0.0% of total
Solar
0MW
0.0% of total

Source shares

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

delayed data · as of 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

Nuclear: 38258 MW Onshore wind: 2093 MW Run-of-river hydro: 1753 MW Natural gas: 1519 MW Pumped-storage hydro: 1024 MW Hydro reservoir: 777 MW Waste: 417 MW Biomass: 288 MW Offshore wind: 226 MW 46,397 MW total
  • Nuclear 38,258MW 82.5%
    details
    Renewable
    no
    Emission factor
    12 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    9.9 g/kWh
  • Onshore wind 2,093MW 4.5%
    details
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    11 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.5 g/kWh
  • Run-of-river hydro 1,753MW 3.8%
    details
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    24 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.9 g/kWh
  • Natural gas 1,519MW 3.3%
    details
    Renewable
    no
    Emission factor
    490 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    16.0 g/kWh
  • Pumped-storage hydro 1,024MW 2.2%
    details
    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
  • Hydro reservoir 777MW 1.7%
    details
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    24 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.4 g/kWh
  • Waste 417MW 0.9%
    details
    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
    5.2 g/kWh
  • Biomass 288MW 0.6%
    details
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    230 g CO₂eq/kWh · weak factor, the figure is fragile
    Adds to the national average
    1.4 g/kWh
  • Offshore wind 226MW 0.5%
    details
    Renewable
    yes
    Emission factor
    12 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.1 g/kWh
  • Oil 36MW 0.1%
    details
    Renewable
    no
    Emission factor
    650 g CO₂eq/kWh
    Adds to the national average
    0.5 g/kWh
  • Other sources 7MW 0.0%
    details
    Renewable
    no
    Emission factor
    490 g CO₂eq/kWh · weak factor, the figure is fragile
    Adds to the national average
    0.1 g/kWh

Renewable energy

Share of clean sources in total production.

delayed data · as of 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

Onshore wind: 2093 MW Run-of-river hydro: 1753 MW Hydro reservoir: 777 MW Biomass: 288 MW Offshore wind: 226 MW 11,1% of production
Onshore wind 2,093 MW Run-of-river hydro 1,753 MW Hydro reservoir 777 MW Biomass 288 MW Offshore wind 226 MW

Energy radar

delayed data · as of 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

Solar: 0 MW Wind: 2319 MW Hydro: 3554 MW Nuclear: 38258 MW Gas: 1554 MW Coal: 0 MW Solar Wind Hydro Nuclear Gas Coal
United Kingdom 2.801 MW export Italy 2.656 MW export Belgium 862 MW import Spain 814 MW export Switzerland 59 MW export Germany 56 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 7.247 MW Import 917 MW Export 6.330 MW 0 50 100 200 km N

The arrows and figures are measurements, as of 12 September at 21:30. 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 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

United Kingdom United Kingdom: 2801 MW Italy Italy: 2656 MW Belgium Belgium: 862 MW Spain Spain: 814 MW Switzerland Switzerland: 59 MW Germany Germany: 56 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 12/09/2026, 23:45:00

France is 21 of 45, counting from the dearest. Exactly as dear as in 2 other zones. Average across zones: 158 EUR/MWh.

  1. IE 303EUR/MWh
  2. IT (SICILY) 229EUR/MWh
  3. AT 203EUR/MWh
  4. IT (CALABRIA) 203EUR/MWh
  5. IT (CENTRE_NORTH) 203EUR/MWh
  6. IT (CENTRE_SOUTH) 203EUR/MWh
  7. IT (NORTH) 203EUR/MWh
  8. IT (SARDINIA) 203EUR/MWh
  9. IT (SOUTH) 203EUR/MWh
  10. SI 197EUR/MWh
  11. AL 195EUR/MWh
  12. XK 195EUR/MWh
  13. HR 195EUR/MWh
  14. BG 191EUR/MWh
  15. GR 191EUR/MWh
  16. BE 191EUR/MWh
  17. ME 191EUR/MWh
  18. RO 190EUR/MWh
  19. CH 190EUR/MWh
  20. HU 190EUR/MWh
  21. ES 188EUR/MWh
  22. FR 188EUR/MWh
  23. PT 188EUR/MWh
  24. DE and LU 180EUR/MWh
  25. RS 179EUR/MWh
  26. DK (DK1) 178EUR/MWh
  27. DK (DK2) 177EUR/MWh
  28. NL 175EUR/MWh
  29. LT 174EUR/MWh
  30. LV 174EUR/MWh
  31. SK 174EUR/MWh
  32. PL 174EUR/MWh
  33. NO (NO2) 170EUR/MWh
  34. CZ 155EUR/MWh
  35. NO (NO5) 141EUR/MWh
  36. NO (NO1) 134EUR/MWh
  37. NO (NO3) 93EUR/MWh
  38. TR 62EUR/MWh
  39. EE 62EUR/MWh
  40. SE (SE4) 19EUR/MWh
  41. SE (SE3) 17EUR/MWh
  42. FI 15EUR/MWh
  43. SE (SE2) 15EUR/MWh
  44. SE (SE1) 14EUR/MWh
  45. NO (NO4) 13EUR/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 12/09/2026, 21:00:00

The base, non-stop
33,706MW
79.8% of the week's average · the Sunday-night floor: fridges, servers, installations that never stop
The work rhythm
2,708MW
6.4% of the week's average · how much more a working night carries than a Sunday night: the shifts
The day
5,842MW
13.8% of the week's average · what exceeds the working-night floor, on average: offices, shops, homes awake

Over the last seven days consumption averaged 42,256 MW and ranged between 32,317 and 51,939 MW.

How it was measured: the median of the 02–05 hours over 8 Sunday mornings (33,706 MW) and over 31 working mornings, Tuesday to Friday (36,414 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 12/09/2026, 23:18:03 · ENTSO-E

Operator's forecast Measured consumption, hourly average
0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,000 00:00 — 40,201 MW 01:00 — 38,195 MW 02:00 — 35,920 MW 03:00 — 34,031 MW 04:00 — 33,117 MW 05:00 — 33,302 MW 06:00 — 34,374 MW 07:00 — 34,946 MW 08:00 — 36,624 MW 09:00 — 38,694 MW 10:00 — 39,925 MW 11:00 — 40,863 MW 12:00 — 42,891 MW 13:00 — 41,498 MW 14:00 — 41,305 MW 15:00 — 40,568 MW 16:00 — 39,866 MW 17:00 — 40,060 MW 18:00 — 41,402 MW 19:00 — 42,404 MW 20:00 — 41,932 MW 21:00 — 40,496 MW 22:00 — 40,734 MW today tomorrow now 00 06 12 18 00 06 12 18
Today's peak
43,000MW
at 13:00
Today's low
32,700MW
at 04:30
Next hour
39,900MW
at 00:00
Tomorrow's peak
43,400MW
at 19:30

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

2,371 MW out now

Unit Lost Period
MONTEZICPumped-storage hydro 910 MW 24 Sept – 24 Sept announced
MONTEZICPumped-storage hydro 910 MW 23 Sept – 23 Sept announced
MONTEZICPumped-storage hydro 910 MW 22 Sept – 22 Sept announced
MONTEZICPumped-storage hydro 910 MW 21 Sept – 21 Sept announced
REVINPumped-storage hydro 800 MW 22 Sept – 22 Sept announced
SAINT AVOLD 7Natural gas 435 MW 14 Jul – 30 Sept forced
SAINT AVOLD 7Natural gas 435 MW 14 Jul – 10 Oct forced
COCHEPumped-storage hydro 384 MW 22 Jul – 13 Nov forced
MONTEYNARDHydro reservoir 366 MW 17 Sept – 18 Sept announced
MONTEYNARDHydro reservoir 366 MW 7 Sept – 17 Sept forced

and 48 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 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

10065 20131 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 — 367 MW 08:00 — 2574 MW 09:00 — 7837 MW 10:00 — 13613 MW 11:00 — 17740 MW 12:00 — 19809 MW 13:00 — 20131 MW 14:00 — 19704 MW 15:00 — 18709 MW 16:00 — 16190 MW 17:00 — 12096 MW 18:00 — 6687 MW 19:00 — 1843 MW 20:00 — 271 MW 21:00 — 193 MW 22:00 — 0 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 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

1154 2308 00:00 — 1652 MW 01:00 — 1603 MW 02:00 — 1374 MW 03:00 — 1267 MW 04:00 — 1222 MW 05:00 — 1210 MW 06:00 — 1194 MW 07:00 — 1286 MW 08:00 — 1320 MW 09:00 — 1165 MW 10:00 — 1146 MW 11:00 — 1408 MW 12:00 — 1737 MW 13:00 — 1973 MW 14:00 — 2036 MW 15:00 — 2010 MW 16:00 — 1952 MW 17:00 — 1956 MW 18:00 — 1903 MW 19:00 — 1718 MW 20:00 — 1664 MW 21:00 — 1956 MW 22:00 — 2308 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 12/09/2026, 22:45:00

201 401 00:00 — 3 MW 01:00 — 2 MW 02:00 — 3 MW 03:00 — 2 MW 04:00 — 1 MW 05:00 — 2 MW 06:00 — 9 MW 07:00 — 210 MW 08:00 — 85 MW 09:00 — 0 MW 10:00 — 16 MW 11:00 — 18 MW 12:00 — 33 MW 13:00 — 3 MW 14:00 — 2 MW 15:00 — 2 MW 16:00 — 2 MW 17:00 — 34 MW 18:00 — 38 MW 19:00 — 15 MW 20:00 — 363 MW 21:00 — 189 MW 22:00 — 34 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 35 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
Nuclear38,25812
Onshore wind2,09311
Run-of-river hydro1,75324
Natural gas1,519490
Pumped-storage hydro1,0240
Hydro reservoir77724
Waste417580
Biomass288230
Offshore wind22612
Oil36650
Other sources7490

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

Denominator: 46,397 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 — 7 days

24 hours 48 hours 7 days 30 days 90 days 1 year all
40,00050,000 09/0609/1009/12

133 points, PT60M 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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