Here you can find data on the volumes of electricity imported or exported by France.
Échanges commerciaux [EN]
Electricity trade balance between France and its neighbours
- Incomplete year
- Preliminary data
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This graph represents an annual and monthly overview of the electricity trade balance between France and its neighbours.
- Increasing interconnections between regions has long been a priority of the European Union's energy policy. The operation of the power system at the European scale is a reality, and it proved essential when the system was under strain during the autumn and winter 2022/2023.
- In past years, France has mostly been a net exporter to neighbouring countries, but significant supply tension in 2022 caused the situation to reverse, with France ending the year as a net importer.
Electricity trade in 2025
France once again recorded the highest net export balance in its history, after achieving a very high balance in 2024.
France was thus a major exporter to all its neighbours, except for Spain, with which the trade balance was close to equilibrium.
Find here the first messages from the 2025 Annual Electricity Review, including analyses of trade
- Incomplete year
- Preliminary data
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This graph shows the balance of trade between France and its neighbors. Values are expressed as average daily power exchanged at the border:
- a positive value indicates a net export balance for the day and the concerned border,
- a negative value indicates a net import balance for the day and for the concerned border.