France’s power transmission grid operator RTE has published its 2025 electricity balance. In its report, RTE highlighted several findings regarding production, demand, exports, and prices.
In 2025, electricity consumption remained stable and stayed about 6% below its pre-crisis level (2014-2019). Total electricity production in France rose slightly to 547.5 TWh, while low-carbon generation reached a historic high of 521.1 TWh and fossil fuel thermal production hit its lowest level in 75 years. The share of low-carbon electricity in the French mix therefore held steady at over 95%. The emissions content of this production reached a historic low of 10.9 MtCO2eq, one of the lowest in Europe, with a carbon content below 20 gCO2eq/kWh. Furthermore, RTE noted that this abundance of low variable-cost low-carbon production in France provides a major advantage for decarbonizing the country’s economy, reducing its imports of fossil fuels to EUR53bn in 2025, and accommodating new uses.
France recorded a new export record in 2025 (+92.3 TWh, or 17% of its production), continuing the trend from the previous year. Exports reached 103.6 TWh, while imports stood at only 11.3 TWh. The value of these French electricity exports reached EUR5.4bn in 2025 (around EUR9bn when accounting for average prices in destination countries).
On prices, French electricity prices on forward markets declined. They have become largely decoupled from those in neighbouring countries and are now at levels far below the latter.
Finally, RTE announced that 30 GW of electricity transmission network access rights have already been allocated to projects as of end-2025, including 14 GW for data centres, 9.5 GW for hydrogen production units, and 6.5 GW for industry electrification.