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Adjusting electricity supply and demand

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Adjusting electricity supply and demand

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March 6, 2026

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Electricity is not Stocks No, all the electricity produced must be consumed instantly, and vice versa. In the event of an imbalance between production and consumption, the stability of the electrical network is undermined.

RTE, as network manager of transport, whose mission is to ensure this balancing in real time in order to provide quality electricity.

Created in 2000, RTE (Electricity Transmission Network) has inherited the high-voltage transport infrastructure and electrical system management dispatchings from EDF. On this basis, RTE designed market mechanisms and collaborated in the creation of the Electricity exchange, has implemented the coupling of markets with our neighbors, has developed electrical erasures and has adapted its network to the integration of renewable energies.

In this article, SirEnergies explains the challenge of adjusting supply and demand, introduces you to some of the means implemented by RTE, such as the adjustment mechanism, and explains the orchestral role that RTE plays in maintaining the balance of the electricity network.

Why do we have to constantly adjust electricity production to demand?

The quality of electricity for the good use of all

The quality of electricity is a concept based on three main criteria: continuity of the power supply, quality of the voltage wave and quality of service.

The continuity of the power supply is based on the stability of the frequency and the acceptable duration of power cuts (1 hour/year on average). The quality of the voltage wave is characterized by its nominal value, 400 V in three phase, and the maintenance of its frequency at 50 Hz.

This quality depends on the proper functioning of electrical appliances drawing electricity from the network: from the electrolysis of aluminum of more than 650 MW to the 800 W toaster for breakfast, to the light of our cities. To ensure this quality, RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Électrice) has tools for balancing the frequency and maintaining the voltage.

To manage balancing the network, in the time of monopoly, EDF had, on the supply side, controllable means of production and, on the demand side, of The EJP (Deleting Peak Days) and of the HP/HC pricing (Peak hours/Off-peak hours).

With the entry into service of adjustment mechanism In 2003, RTE created a market Day Ahead dedicated to balancing, mechanism presented below.

Some figures on electricity production in France

In 2020, net electricity production in France stood at 510 TWh.

Compared to 2019, it fell by 6.8% due to unavailability of the nuclear power plant, accumulated delays in the maintenance of this fleet due to the health crisis, and the permanent closure of the Fessenheim power plant. The health crisis has also led to a drop in demand and, in turn, a 9.1% drop in peak thermal production.

Only renewable energy production increased (wind +17.2%, PV +17.2%, PV +11.1%, hydraulic +8.3%) due to favourable weather conditions and the increase in wind farms.

Factors that change electrical demand

In 2020, Variation factors of demand were dominated by the health crisis which, as in 2019, contributed significantly to a drop in activity.

The factors that change demand are:

Meteorology:

  • -1°C in winter leads to an increase of 2,300 MW in demand, i.e. the equivalent of 2 times the consumption of the city of Marseille;
  • A change in cloudiness from 0 to 8 leads to an increase in demand by 650 MW.

The rhythms of life impact economic activity and generate consumption troughs:

  • Yearly: during summer vacation (July — August) and Christmas;
  • Weekly: at the weekend (Sunday rest);
  • Periodicals: public holidays (Christmas, Easter, May 1, July 14).

Demand management:

  • Price cancellations from domestic customers (incentive, EJP rate, Tempo rate, cancellations inseparable from the supply);
  • The cancellation of industrial customers (incentives, tenders, adjustment mechanisms);
  • Diffuse erasures (ordered erasure, tenders, heating).

Citizen initiatives to control electricity consumption:

  • In the PACA and Brittany regions, fragile electrical peninsulas, mechanisms for calling for moderation.

The legal schedule: summer schedule or winter schedule:

  • The summer schedule has the effect of virtually eliminating the peak of consumption in the evening that occurs in winter at 19:00

Extraordinary events:

  • 2018 World Cup final: consumption fell by 1,200 MW for 90 minutes in France, with a peak consumption of 500 MW at halftime to heat popcorn in the microwave;
  • 2020 COVID-19 health crisis: at the height of the crisis (second and third weeks of lockdown), consumption in France fell by more than 15%.

How do you balance an electrical network?

Some figures on electricity consumption in France

In 2019, the French electricity bill was €54 billion, for a consumption of 473 TWh.

In 2020, the health crisis and its economic consequences reduced French consumption to 424 TWh, down 3.2% compared to 2019.

Since 1990, this consumption has increased by 1.5 times due to an increase in the share of residential and tertiary sectors:

The role of RTE in monitoring the network every second

RTE monitors the network every second. Article L.321-10 of the Energy Code entrusts RTE with the mission of ensuring “at all times the balance of electricity flows as well as the security, safety and efficiency of this network, taking into account the technical constraints affecting it”.

At the second, RTE has tools to monitor the electricity transmission network and react in real time to maintain The balance between injection and withdrawal.

First of all, RTE has advanced technologies to automatically correct any faults on the network:

  • 1 millisecond: the electrotechnical protection mechanisms distributed on the lines or in the transformer and distribution stations;
  • 20 milliseconds: the sensors in all electrical substations that send information back to the protection tools;
  • 40 milliseconds: the instantaneous reconfiguration of structures according to pre-established patterns to limit faults and avoid a collapse of the network;
  • 100 milliseconds: circuit breakers in electrical substations, which make it possible to de-energize the line impacted by the fault;
  • 1 second: the automatic reconfiguration of the network is visible to agents, often after the problem has automatically disappeared.

In terms Organizational, RTE has technical and human resources:

  • The CNES (National Center for the Exploitation of the French Electrical System) in Saint-Denis, responsible for the national balance of the electrical network;
  • The 7 regional control centers, which are responsible for monitoring the network and electricity flows.

In terms of mechanisms, RTE can act by using for example:

  • System services, and in particular the primary reserve, which automatically limit frequency variations around 50 Hz by activating modulation capacities up or down in a few seconds;
  • Interruptibility, which makes it possible to instantly interrupt the consumption of large industrial sites in exchange for an annual financial bonus;
  • The adjustment mechanism, which makes it possible to mobilize upward or downward adjustment offers in the form of capacities that can be mobilized per half-hour;
  • The Ecowatt signal, a real electricity weather forecast set up by RTE and ADEME, which encourages consumers to change their consumption behavior in the event of high voltage;

RTE carries out analyses on an ongoing basis:

  • The forecast of consumption, the day before, for the next day and in real time, based on consumption histories and forecasts from Météo-France;
  • The availability of production units, via the dispatches of major electricity producers such as EDF, Engie or GazelEnergie.

Some of this information is available on the RTE Éco2mix platform, such as border trade surveillance.

graphique eco2mix

Source: RTE, Éco2mix

Understanding the adjustment mechanism

The adjustment mechanism, which is part of the tertiary reserves, was set up by RTE in 2003, in accordance with its legal missions (in particular article L.321-10 of the Energy Code) and statutory missions, in order to ensure the following four functions:

  • Ensure in real time The balance between production and consumption;
  • Replenish the minimum requirements in primary and secondary reserves;
  • Reconstitute the minimum requirements on the margins (to respect a predefined level of risk);
  • Resolve congestions in the Public Transport Network.

This daily market, known as “day ahead”, allows RTE to buy production or disposal capacity from adjustment actors who are producers or consumers. They can participate directly or through aggregators.

Producers can propose to increase or decrease their electricity production and suppression operators can propose to reduce their consumption. In case of need for adjustment, RTE activates adjustment offers according to their economic precedence.

In 2020, the overall volume of adjustment was 10.1 TWh and represented 2.3% of gross electricity consumption.

The Ecowatt signal, the electricity weather

On Monday 4 April 2022, RTE anticipated a complicated situation with the cold wave and asked businesses and local authorities to limit their consumption between 7 am and 10 am.

graphique rte eco2mix

Source: RTE, Éco2mix

The national Ecowatt signal has changed to orange. National consumption rose to 71,609 MW at 8:45 a.m., slightly less than the forecast that anticipated 72,400 MW at 9:00 a.m. on D-1. Between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., to balance the system, RTE activated 762.82 MWh of energy at an increased rate.

How is the management of the electrical network optimized?

Need to forecast consumption in real time

The possibilities of electricity storage being very limited, or almost zero, all the electricity produced must be consumed instantly ; this is why RTE seeks to constantly anticipate changes in electricity consumption in order to activate the necessary adjustment tools at all times.

Placement of power plants on the load curve

The first tool RTE has to ensure the balance between production and consumption is the placement of production units on the load curve. For RTE, this work consists in stacking, quarter of an hour by quarter of an hour, these units per economic precedence (merit order), until full consumption is covered.

Total production must not only cover domestic consumption, but also exports and the pumping of STEP.

graphique eco2mix

Source: RTE, Éco2mix

Anticipating long-term changes in electricity consumption

Forecasting tomorrow's electricity consumption is an essential task carried out by market players and public authorities. This work makes it possible to plan the necessary investments in new means of production and to design public policies to reduce energy consumption: renovation of residential real estate, reduction of greenhouse gases, calls for tenders, cancellation, etc.

During the monopoly period, this global vision was provided by EDF: in the very long term for the strategic planning of investments in new production plants, in the medium term for the placement and maintenance of nuclear power plants, in the short term for starting thermal groups or triggering EJP deletions.

Today, this work is carried out in part by RTE, which has developed a number of new devices to manage balancing at different time horizons in order to anticipate the balance of supply and demand in real time. The diagram below illustrates this approach.

tarifs dynamiques ou flexibles edf

At the end of October 2021, RTE, very committed to energy transition, presented a study to decarbonize the electrical system by 2050.

Based on a modeling of the energy system (diagram below) and long-term influencing factors such as: population growth, the evolution of economic activity, the electrification of transport, the transformation of industrial production tools, the energy renovation of homes, the modification of lifestyles, the modification of lifestyles with teleworking, short circuits and the circular economy, etc., RTE has built 3 main scenarios for the evolution of energy consumption.

Futurs énergétiques 2050 - Le rapport complet

Source: Energy Futures 2050 - The full report (February 2022)

In this study, RTE forecasts an increase in electricity consumption of 35%, i.e. an electricity consumption of 650 TWh by 2050 to compensate for the end of fossil fuels.

We have summarized the RTE report on Energy Futures 2050 in this article.

With the development of renewables, and in particular wind turbines and solar panels, intermittent energies by nature, the need for RTE is evolving towards a growing need for carbon-free management tools (as opposed to the gas-fired power plant) such asElectrical erasure.

This includes the development of VPP (Virtual Power Plant) allowing the large-scale aggregation of automatically controllable erasure capabilities, and the implementation of Smart Grids increasingly intelligent, thanks toAI (Artificial Intelligence), to connected objects (Linky counter) and to the future development of 5G.

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Le transport (RTE) correspond aux "autoroutes" de l’électricité. Il s’agit de transporter de très grandes quantités d'énergie sur de longues distances, depuis les centrales de production (nucléaires, barrages, parcs éoliens offshore) vers les régions de consommation.

La distribution (Enedis) s'apparente aux "routes départementales" et aux rues. Elle récupère l'électricité à la sortie du réseau de transport pour la livrer directement chez le client final, en abaissant la tension pour qu'elle soit utilisable par vos appareils.

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La Multiannual Energy Programming (PPE) is the strategic management tool for France's energy policy. Established by the 2015 law on energy transition for green growth (LTECV), it serves as a compass for the State, communities and businesses.

Concretely, the PPE sets the priorities for action of the public authorities for the management of all forms of energy on the national territory. It covers a period of ten years, divided into two periods of five years, and must be revised periodically to adapt to technological and economic developments.

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  • Security of supply.
  • Improving energy efficiency and reducing consumption.
  • The development of renewable and recovered energies.
  • The electrical production strategy (nuclear, thermal, etc.).
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It is crucial not to confuse it with National Low Carbon Strategy (SNBC). While SNBC sets carbon budgets (the ceilings for greenhouse gas emissions by sector), the PPE determines the technical and energy resources to achieve them.

What are the challenges for tertiary companies?

Tertiary companies must manage their energy costs while guaranteeing the comfort of users (offices, shops, services). Consumption is often linked to heating, air conditioning and lighting, which requires precise monitoring to avoid budgetary excesses.

Pourquoi le mécanisme de capacité a-t-il été créé ?

Instauré en 2017, ce dispositif répond à un enjeu de sécurité nationale.
L'électricité ne se stockant pas à grande échelle, le réseau doit être capable de répondre instantanément à la demande, même lors des pics de froid hivernaux. Le mécanisme incite financièrement les producteurs à maintenir leurs centrales disponibles et les entreprises à réduire leur consommation (effacement) lors de ces périodes critiques.

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La fin de l'ARENH (Accès Régulé à l'Électricité Nucléaire Historique) marque l'arrêt de la fourniture d'électricité à prix fixe garanti (42 €/MWh).
Dès le 1er janvier 2026, les entreprises sont exposées aux prix de marché, mais deux nouveaux mécanismes de régulation prennent le relais, bien que leur logique soit différente :

  1. Le Versement Nucléaire Universel (VNU) : Ce n'est pas un tarif d'achat, mais un mécanisme de redistribution a posteriori. Si les prix de marché de l'électricité nucléaire dépassent un certain seuil (environ 78 €/MWh selon les estimations pour 2026), EDF reversera 50 % des revenus excédentaires aux consommateurs. Attention : Si les prix de marché restent modérés (sous les 78 €/MWh), le VNU ne se déclenche pas. Il agit comme une assurance contre les flambées extrêmes, pas comme un tarif bas garanti.
  2. Les CAPN (Contrats d'Allocation de Production Nucléaire) : Réservés aux industriels électro-intensifs, ces contrats de long terme (10-15 ans) permettent de réserver une part de la production nucléaire en échange d'une participation aux coûts du parc. Ils offrent une visibilité sur le long terme pour 50 à 70 % des volumes consommés.

Conseil stratégique : Ne comptez pas sur le VNU pour réduire votre facture en 2026 si les marchés restent stables. Auditez vos contrats dès maintenant pour intégrer une part de prix fixe ou explorer des "Power Purchase Agreements" (PPA) pour sécuriser vos coûts sur le long terme.

What taxes are particularly relevant to manufacturers?

The industry is concerned by TICFE, TICGN and other contributions that may represent an important part of invoices. Sirenergies identifies cases of exemption and accompanies the procedures to benefit from them.

Qu'est-ce que le cosinus phi

C'est l'indicateur d'efficacité d'un appareil électrique ; il représente le ratio entre la puissance active (utile) et la puissance apparente (totale).

Qu'est-ce que le dispositif VNU qui remplace l'ARENH en 2026 ?

La Vente de Nucléaire Universelle (VNU) est le nouveau mécanisme de régulation des prix de l'électricité en France. Contrairement à l'ARENH, il ne s'agit plus d'un volume fixe à prix réduit, mais d'une redistribution financière des revenus excédentaires d'EDF aux consommateurs, basée sur les prix de marché et les coûts de production du nucléaire historique.

L'hydroélectricité est-elle une énergie "propre" ?

Oui, elle est considérée comme une énergie renouvelable à faibles émissions de gaz à effet de serre.

De plus, l'eau ne subit aucune transformation chimique durant le cycle de production et réintègre son milieu naturel en aval.

Cependant, la construction de barrages nécessite des mesures pour protéger les écosystèmes (débit minimum, passes à poissons).

Quel est le nouveau record 2025 d'exportation d'électricité de la France ?

En 2025, la France a atteint un solde exportateur net de 92,3 TWh, battant le précédent record de 2024 (89 TWh).

Mon entreprise peut-elle tirer profit des nouvelles Heures Creuses (11h-17h)?

Absolument. La réforme des heures creuses vise à absorber la surproduction solaire en milieu de journée. Les créneaux d'heures creuses se déplacent progressivement vers la plage 11h00 – 17h00, notamment en été. C'est une opportunité majeure pour les sites industriels ou tertiaires capables de flexibilité.

Conseil stratégique :

  • Pilotage de la charge : Si vous avez des processus énergivores (fours, broyeurs, recharge de flotte de véhicules électriques, production de froid), déplacez leur fonctionnement sur la pause méridienne. L'électricité y sera moins chère et moins carbonée.
  • Autoconsommation : C'est le moment idéal pour coupler cette tarification avec une installation photovoltaïque en toiture ou en ombrière de parking. Vous effacez votre consommation réseau au moment où le tarif serait le plus avantageux, ou vous profitez des prix bas du réseau si votre production ne suffit pas.

How to optimize the taxes and contributions of a community?

Communities are subject to taxes such as TICFE or TICGN. Sirenergies analyzes invoices, identifies exemption possibilities and fixes possible errors to reduce the tax burden.

Quel sera l'impact réel du VNU sur ma facture d'électricité professionnelle ?

L'impact dépendra des prix de marché. Le mécanisme prévoit une redistribution si les prix dépassent 78 €/MWh. Cependant, si les cours restent bas (actuellement autour de 60 €/MWh), le dispositif ne s'activera pas. La facture sera alors indexée à 100% sur les prix de marché, rendant le choix du fournisseur et du moment d'achat critiques.

What is the point of following Spot & Forward prices?

This makes it possible to choose the right time to contract, secure your budgets and anticipate increases.

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