Published 17/04/2025 21:38
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France produces more electricity than needed. The producers then break their prices to sell it abroad and the state compensates, which is expensive. The only way to avoid this situation is to disconnect the wind farms.
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France produces more electricity than needed. The producers then break their prices to sell it abroad and the state compensates, which is expensive. The only way to avoid this situation is to disconnect the wind farms.
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Electricity is in full swing in power plants and wind and solar parks, more and more numerous. However, three years ago, France feared blackout because of many nuclear reactors in maintenance. The authorities had asked users to reduce their consumption. Result: between 2021 and 2024, individuals and businesses consumed -3.4% electricity.
So France exports electricity but still produces too much, to the point of alarming the energy manager, RTE, in a letter sent to suppliers. Electricity cannot be stored. To avoid blowing the pellets of the network, RTE can as a last resort ask the producers of renewable energy to close the valves with compensation funded by the taxes of our electricity bills. “”We continue to help them when we do not necessarily need their productions since we produce too much “details Thierry Bros, energy expert, professor at Sciences Po.
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