Annual Report to the European Commission: Main Developments in the French Electricity and Natural Gas Markets in 2025 and the First Half of 2026 (CRE)

Summary

• RTE operates the largest network in Europe, with more than 100,000 km of lines from 63,000 to 400,000 volts.p.10
• For TURPE 7 HTB, targets are 2.9 min/year of equivalent outage time and 0.38 outages/year, with a global incentive cap of +/- 50 M EUR.p.16
• In 2025, penalties paid by Enedis to residential customers for long outages totalled 94.7 M EUR.p.16
• Financial caps of the connection incentive regulation were increased to +/-52 M EUR per year.p.22
• Five pooling zones were validated, including Dunkerque with 5200 MW of created capacity and Le Havre Port-Jerome with 1500 MW.p.24
• RTE was asked to pre-reserve capacity at 5 suitable sites, with 700 MW at four of them and 1 GW at Le Bosquel; four winners were selected in June 2026.p.25
• At 31 December 2025 the CRE had 159 staff, of which 67 women and 92 men, compared with 155 staff a year earlier.p.9

Key insights

1. The CRE considers that RTE's independence from its shareholders stayed at a very good level between 2023 and 2025.p.12
2. For TURPE 6 HTB, the target levels were set at 2.8 min for equivalent outage time and 0.46 for outage frequency.p.15
3. Over the TURPE 7 period, the global incentive cap is set at +/- 50 M EUR with a symmetric incentive.p.16
4. The global cap on Enedis financial incentives was set at +/- 83 M EUR in TURPE 6 and raised by 10% in TURPE 7.p.17
5. Enedis connection indicators deteriorated between 2025 and 2026, except for individual low-voltage connections without network extension.p.22
6. Loire Estuaire pooling zone creates 1150 MW of capacity with a share of 127.77 k EUR/MW after the reduction.p.24
7. Dunkerque pooling zone creates 5200 MW of capacity with a share of 42 k EUR/MW after the reduction.p.24
8. RTE has implemented optimised connection offers for storage installations since 2024.p.26