Electricity prices in France today
The wholesale day-ahead price in France is €169.11 per MWh right now, or €0.1691 per kWh. Today's average is €159.12/MWh, +11.8% against yesterday, and 15% below the European average of €186.38/MWh.
- Average today
- €159.12
- /MWh
- Lowest
- €1.99
- /MWh at 13:30
- Highest
- €300.00
- /MWh at 19:45
- In €/kWh
- €0.1591
- /kWh wholesale only
Price for each interval, 22 September 2026
96 of 96 intervals published at 15-minute resolution.
Cheapest hours today
- 13:30 – 13:45€1.99/MWh
- 13:45 – 14:00€2.00/MWh
- 13:15 – 13:30€3.43/MWh
Most expensive hours today
- 19:45 – 20:00€300.00/MWh
- 20:15 – 20:30€290.01/MWh
- 19:30 – 19:45€287.94/MWh
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About this market
France has the largest nuclear fleet in Europe, so its prices are driven far more by reactor availability and maintenance schedules than by weather. Widespread electric heating also makes French demand unusually sensitive to cold snaps.
Method and source
- Source: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, licensed under CC-BY 4.0.
- Market: day-ahead auction. Zone: FR. Timezone: Europe/Paris.
- The daily average is the arithmetic mean of every published interval of the local day, not weighted by volume.
- This is a wholesale price. Network charges, levies, taxes and supplier margin are not included, and a household tariff is typically several times higher.