France: the live status of the French electricity grid

Generation mix right now

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Generation by source right now, ranked highest to lowest.

Replay today

Move the slider to see the generation mix at any point so far today.

Generation mix over the last 24 hours

Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.

History

Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.

Cross-border flows

Physical flows across each border today, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform. Borders are fetched one at a time, so each one updates every few hours.

Long-term history

Electricity generated each year, by source, from each country's official yearly statistics.

Records

Browse every day in the archive

About the French grid

RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Électricité) operates France's transmission grid, part of the Continental Europe synchronous area alongside Germany, Spain, Italy and most of the rest of mainland Europe - all locked to the same 50Hz frequency and trading through coupled day-ahead markets. France's 56 nuclear reactors, mostly built in a concentrated programme through the 1980s, give it the highest share of nuclear generation of any major grid worldwide, and routinely make it Europe's largest net electricity exporter.

That nuclear baseload is complemented by significant hydro capacity (concentrated in the Alps and Pyrenees, providing fast-responding flexibility that nuclear itself cannot), a growing wind and solar fleet, and a small, shrinking fossil-fuel fleet used mainly to cover winter demand peaks and occasional nuclear outages. France connects to Great Britain via three subsea interconnectors - IFA (opened 1986, one of the first international power links anywhere), IFA2 (2021) and ElecLink (2022, routed through the Channel Tunnel) - together capable of moving several gigawatts in either direction depending on relative prices and demand.

Records & context

Sources: RTE eco2mix key figures (records), RTE annual review 2025, EDF nuclear fleet, Euractiv (2022 net imports). Last checked: 2 October 2026.

Data sources for France

The Elexon Insights Solution, NESO Data Portal and Carbon Intensity API that power the Great Britain pages are GB-specific and do not cover France, so this page draws on a different source instead:

• ENTSO-E Transparency Platform - the pan-European grid data hub, required by EU regulation for every connected TSO (RTE included) to publish to. Powers demand, generation, day-ahead price, the generation mix, the 24-hour mix chart and the History section above, all via France's own bidding zone. Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.

Two figures are not shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E does not publish emissions intensity (g/kWh), and its generation-per-type data does not include cross-border physical flow (reading that out per-interconnector - IFA/IFA2/ElecLink individually - would need a separate query this page does not make), so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they are left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.