Gross consumptionPower consumed across France, including Corsica and factoring in losses in the French regions declined relative to 2017 in all regions except Brittany and Occitanie, which saw increases of 1.1% and 0,6%, respectively. The steepest decline was recorded in Bourgogne Franche-Comté (-2.5%).

Between 2007 and 2017, trends in adjusted consumptionPower that would have been consumed if temperatures had been the same as reference temperatures, and if there was no 29th day in February for leap years in France were mixed due to a variety of factors, one of which was demographics. This was the case in Occitanie, where electricity consumption rose by almost 8% as the population grew by more than 9%.

The Grand-Est saw the steepest decrease in adjusted consumptionPower that would have been consumed if temperatures had been the same as reference temperatures, and if there was no 29th day in February for leap years in France (-9%) due to the region’s deindustrialisation.

The Hauts-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions are home to the largest number of industrial sites connected to the transmission grid. Consumption declined relative to 2017 in all regions except Brittany (+7%) and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (+2%). Nouvelle-Aquitaine recorded a decrease of more than 7%.