page_title: Energy in France
section_title: Renewable energy
hierarchical_section_title: Energy in France / Electricity / Renewable energy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Germinon (Marne, France)&#160;; le parc éolien.
context_page_description: Energy in France is the energy and electricity production, consumption and import in France.
  Nuclear power accounted for 72.3% of total electricity production in 2016, while renewables and fossil fuels accounted for 17.8% and 8.6%, respectively. France has the largest share of nuclear electricity in the world. The country is also among the world's biggest net exporters of electricity.
context_section_description: With growing installed wind and solar power capacity, on top of preexisting hydroelectric facilities, renewable energy rose to provide 23% of France's national electricity consumption in 2019.
  Government policy aims to increase renewable energy use; in 2015, the French parliament passed a comprehensive energy and climate law that includes a mandatory renewable energy target requiring 40% of national electricity production to come from renewable sources by 2030. A related provision of the 2015 law was the planned reduction of nuclear energy's share in power production from 75% (2016-2017 data) to 50% by 2025, but this was later delayed by ten years, to 2035, over concerns of carbon emissions, energy security, and employment.
caption: Wind farm in France.
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