French summer generation adequate even for heatwave, drought: TSO outlook

摘要

France has sufficient power generation capacity available this summereven in the event of heatwaves and a drought, grid operator RTE saidJune 15.Average availability was pegged at 70 GW, while average peakdemand was forecast around 55 GW assuming average temperatures,it added.On balance, availability gains outweighed a demand reboundcompared with last summer, with the outlook for 2021 closelymatching 2019, RTE said in the statement.