{"title":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"093","label":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy"},"updated":"2026-11-11","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 496 supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy through award notices on TED; the 132 of them that state a value (26.6%) add up to €408 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. France imported €2.93 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2716, 2844 and 2612; all buyers, not only public ones), down 31.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 167 companies have won 1,254 public supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in France, in 402 award notices from 364 public buyers.","99.4% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is Spain.","The five companies that win most often hold 50.8% of all awards.","15.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":1254,"awardNotices":402,"winningCompanies":167,"publicBuyers":364,"awardsWithValue":303,"awardedValueEur":2228612203,"localAwards":1246,"foreignAwards":8,"top5Share":0.5079744816586922,"singleBidAwards":167,"awardsWithKnownBids":1051,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":455,"awardNotices":133,"awardsWithValue":78,"awardedValueEur":158220514},{"year":2025,"awards":496,"awardNotices":180,"awardsWithValue":132,"awardedValueEur":408332326},{"year":2026,"awards":303,"awardNotices":89,"awardsWithValue":93,"awardedValueEur":1662059362}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2716","label":"Electrical energy"},{"hs4":"2844","label":"Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes, incl. their fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes, and their compounds"},{"hs4":"2612","label":"Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":4277131401},{"year":2024,"valueEur":2242145848},{"year":2025,"valueEur":2931217526}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in France — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €486 billion in 2025, 16.2% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":485827000000,"percentOfGdp":16.2,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 11 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}