France’s electricity system, right now
What France is generating, using and sending over its borders, read from RTE’s éCO2mix every quarter hour, with the batteries drawn inside it as RTE publishes them: the whole fleet’s charging and discharging as two national totals, no battery by battery.
Live · RTE’s éCO2mix on ODRÉ, read this quarter hour
Where the power is coming from, and where it is going
Reading the flows.
Reading the system.
The flow as a table
The batteries, charging and discharging
Reading the fleet.
Reading the fleet.
RTE publishes the fleet as two totals every quarter hour, the power going into the batteries and the power coming out, and names no battery. Above the line the fleet is sending power out; below it, taking power in. The national register of 31 August 2026 names 908 batteries in service, 2,245 MW, each with its substation.
The last 24 hours
Reading the day.
Generation by kind, stacked, with the cables’ net import as the pale band at the bottom on the quarter hours France imports, and RTE’s consumption figure drawn over it. Beneath, on the same clock, the batteries’ net: above their line they are sending power out, below it they are taking it in.
Hydro is as RTE publishes it, the pumped storage stations’ turbining included. The power their pumps draw is a separate figure, which RTE counts outside consumption, so when the pumps run the stack sits above the consumption line by about that much. Wind is one band, onshore and offshore added; the flow caption gives the two.
The cables
Reading the cables.
The five figures are the commercial exchanges RTE publishes, border by border, every half hour: the schedules agreed between the markets, imports to the right and exports to the left, in megawatts. Power does not follow the schedules exactly, so they do not add up to the physical total in the flow above, which is the figure RTE measures at its borders.
RTE publishes no frequency in éCO2mix, so there is no frequency panel here.
RTE’s forecast of consumption against the day
Reading the forecast.
Reading.
Every figure from RTE’s éCO2mix national real time dataset (eco2mix-national-tr) on ODRÉ, opendata.reseaux-energies.fr, under the Licence Ouverte 2.0: consommation, prevision_j1 and prevision_j, the eight kinds of generation (nucleaire, bioenergies, gaz, charbon, fioul, hydraulique, solaire, eolien), pompage, ech_physiques, the five ech_comm columns, taux_co2, stockage_batterie and destockage_batterie, every quarter hour, exports negative and imports positive as RTE signs them. RTE refreshes the dataset every quarter hour and publishes a quarter hour a little after it ends; the live strip says how far behind the newest one runs. RTE describes the real time figures as telemetry completed with estimates, replaced by metered figures in the following months. The fleet total is the national register of 31 August 2026. Nothing on this page is modelled.