23% of French electricity consumption in 2019 comes from renewable sources

    On February 6, the French Renewable Energy Union (SER), the Association of Electricity Distributors (Adeef), and the Energy Network Operators Agency (ORE) jointly released a report.In 2019, 23% of French electricity consumption came from solar system costs french sources. A slight increase compared to the year, mainly due to the increase in wind power generation.

    At present, the total installed capacity of renewable energy power in France is 53,609 MW. Total renewable power installed capacity increased by almost 4.6% in 2019

    Among them, the total installed capacity of hydropower was 25,557 MW, accounting for 11.7% of power consumption; the total installed capacity of wind power was 16,494 MW, accounting for 7.2% of power consumption, an increase of 1.3 percentage points over 2018

    The total installed capacity of solar energy is 9,436 MW (new installation of 890 MW in 2019), accounting for 2.5% of power consumption, which is the same as in 2018. 75 MW), accounting for 1.6% of electricity consumption.