Caroline Pailliez

(Montel) French spot power looked set on Friday to reach its highest level since February 2025 next week amid heat-related nuclear outages and high exports.

(Montel) Environmental groups plan to take legal action to block Europe's largest data centre project as it will be France's biggest energy consumer and require 4.6 GW of green diesel back-up generators, they told Montel.

(Montel) France's energy supply is secure for this winter despite low reserves from hydropower, amid stronger nuclear availability and a larger renewables fleet, the country's TSO said on Monday.

(Montel) France needs to properly take this summer's record heat-related nuclear cuts into account when choosing sites to build new reactors, analysts told Montel this week.

(Montel) Europe's biomethane industry weathered this summer's extreme heat and drought without significant production loss, industry representatives

(Montel) France will achieve its target to fill its gas storage sites by 85% by 1 November, after it reached 83% at the end of September, energy regulator CRE said on Tuesday.

(Montel) The chairwoman of French TSO RTE on Wednesday called for a new system to deal with grid congestion in response to an eight-fold surge in connection requests in five years, particularly from data centres.

(Montel) A contract for difference (CFD) subsidy for nuclear power would better protect French consumers against rising electricity prices than the current regulation, alternative energy suppliers' lobby Afieg said on Thursday.

(Montel) The current energy crisis is “a wake-up call”, pushing French power consumers to hedge over longer maturities, several power suppliers told Montel on the sidelines of a conference in Paris.

(Montel) Liquidity in French wholesale power markets should grow considerably in the coming years thanks to electrification and the end of regulated prices, Nord Pool chief strategy officer Julien Cosse told Montel.