2025 Annual Electricity Review

RTE's 2025 Annual Electricity Review confirms that the conditions are in place for France to accelerate its electrification and sustainably reduce its dependence on fossil fuels: abundant generation that is more than 95% low-carbon (low-carbon generation volume has reached a historic high) and competitive prices, lower than those of many neighbouring countries, resulting in record exports.

Follow this link to view the web version of the full report and its key findings: 2025 Annual Electricity Review (in French only) | Analysis and Data Portal

The Annual Electricity Review highlights some unprecedented findings:

• In 2025, electricity consumption remained stable, staying nearly 6% below its pre-crisis level.
• Total electricity generation in France increased slightly in 2025 (547.5 TWh), but low-carbon generation reached a historic high of 521.1 TWh and fossil fuel-based thermal production reached its lowest level in 75 years. The share of low-carbon electricity in the French mix therefore remains at over 95%.
• French electricity prices on the futures markets have fallen. They have largely decoupled from those of neighbouring countries and are now at levels well below the latter.
• France set a new export record in 2025 (+92.3 TWh, or 17% of its production and a volume greater than the consumption of a country such as Belgium), continuing the trend from the previous year.
• The value of these electricity exports from France amounted to €5.4 billion in 2025 (and around €9 billion when taking into account the average price of the countries to which France exports): France did not therefore ‘sell off’ its electricity: it exported its competitive and surplus production almost continuously.
• The emissions content of French electricity production reached a historic low (10.9 MtCO2eq) and is one of the lowest in Europe.
• As RTE pointed out in its forecast report published in December 2025 (2035 Electricity Power System Outlook), this competitiveness and abundance of low-carbon production at low variable cost in France offers a considerable advantage for decarbonising the country's economy, reducing its imports of fossil fuels (which cost €53 billion in 2025) and welcoming new uses.
• This ambition is no longer just a prospect but can now be supported by numerous electrification projects. 30 GW of access rights to the electricity transmission network had already been allocated to these projects by the end of 2025: the challenge for the coming months is now to bring them to fruition and initiate a genuine movement towards the electrification of the country.