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Monthly Electrical Energy Overview January 2017

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This publication presents the electricity characteristics and noteworthy developments in France every month: consumption, generation, renewable energies, cross-border trades and transmission system developments, along with feedback on the highlights affecting this data. This issue presents the key figures for January 2017. The cold spell of January 2017 caused a strong increase in gross electricity demand (+14.3%) compared to January 2016. The French exchange balance was in favour of imports for the second consecutive month. Demand recorded a peak on 20/01/2017 at 94.2 GW. It is the highest peak since February 2012. Corrected electricity demand trend stabilised in January 2017. Fossil fuel thermal generation was 8.3 TWh up by 71% compared to January 2016. Solar production grew significantly compared to last year with a 37.7% increase. The balance of exchanges was in favour of imports for the second consecutive month with a total of 0.95 TWh of electricity imported. 4 new installations went into service in January 2017

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Original title (French)
Apercu mensuel sur l'energie electrique Janvier 2017

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
24 p.
Report number
INIS-FR--17-1080

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
48099063
Subject category
S24: POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY;
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Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
CAPACITY; DAILY VARIATIONS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; INTERCONNECTED POWER SYSTEMS; LOAD MANAGEMENT; MONTHLY VARIATIONS; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; POWER GENERATION; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SPOT MARKET; STATISTICAL DATA; TRADE; WHOLESALE PRICES; WIND POWER PLANTS
Descriptors DEC
DATA; ENERGY SYSTEMS; INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT; MARKET; NUMERICAL DATA; POWER PLANTS; POWER SYSTEMS; PRICES; VARIATIONS

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Available from the INIS Liaison Officer for France, see the 'INIS contacts' section of the INIS website for current contact and E-mail addresses: http://www.iaea.org/inis/Contacts/