⚡️ Electricity prices 🇫🇷 France ⚡️

France operates the world's most nuclear-intensive electricity grid: 56 reactors generate around 65% of national supply, plus 12% from hydropower and a fast-growing 14% from wind and solar. RTE, the state TSO, manages the single FR bidding zone — the largest synchronous bloc in Europe. The 2022 fleet-wide stress-corrosion crisis cut nuclear output to a 30-year low, briefly making France a net importer; capacity has since recovered.

Day-ahead clearing happens on EPEX SPOT Paris. The 2024 multi-annual energy plan calls for 6 new EPR2 reactors plus ambitious 100 GW solar and 40 GW offshore wind by 2050.

France is electrically coupled to Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK (via 4 GW HVDC), Italy, Spain, and Switzerland — making it the largest power exporter in the EU during low-demand periods. Heating is dominated by direct electric resistance, which makes winter cold spells the dominant driver of peak demand.