Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
How electricity works in France
Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail
About 60 nuclear reactors supply most electricity. Consumers can choose a supplier or stay on the regulated blue tariff set on CRE's advice. Islands and overseas departments are separate systems run by EDF SEI.
Part of the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, the largest interconnected grid in the world by customers, coordinated by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.
What does “Liberalised market” mean?
Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.
RTE covers the metropolitan transmission system. Island and overseas systems have separate arrangements.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Metropolitan France stretches from Atlantic coastlines to the Alps and the Mediterranean. Major river corridors and mountain valleys provide a useful framework for exploring its varied power-station geography.
Capital
Paris
Languages
French
Major cities
Paris, Lyon, Marseille
Geographic reference: European Union country profile. Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 2,155 records for France. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
2,155 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 2,155 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
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