Over 1.5 million households opt for green electricity in France

The Energy Regulatory Commission ‘Commission de régulation de l'énergie’ (CRE) has observed that the green electricity market is well developed in France, however it finds the green gas market at a nascent stage.

The CRE report ‘État des lieux des marchés de détail français de l’électricité et du gaz naturel en 2017’ finds that 1,531,000 residential customers have opted for renewable energy tariffs as of December 31, 2017, representing 5% of all residential households in France. Among these, 95% households have subsc...