Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
Across the 67 France power plants carrying an asset-level CO₂ figure in this open dataset, total emissions are about 10.9 Mt CO₂/yr. The single largest emitter, DK6 (gas), accounts for about 23% of that 67-plant reported subset (not of the whole country). The top three owners — ENGIE SA [100%], Electricité de France SA [100%], Total Direct Énergie [100%] — control roughly 44% of that 67-plant reported subset. Most of these plants sit in a temperate Köppen climate zone.
CO₂ — measured (US EPA / EU ETS) or modelled (Climate TRACE), per plant · backbone WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0) · climate: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). CC BY 4.0.
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Carnet nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 6,000 |
| 2 | GRAVELINES | Nuclear | 5,706 |
| 3 | PALUEL | Nuclear | 5,528 |
| 4 | CATTENOM | Nuclear | 5,448 |
| 5 | FLAMANVILLE | Nuclear | 4,414 |
| 6 | CRUAS | Nuclear | 3,824 |
| 7 | TRICASTIN 1 | Nuclear | 3,820 |
| 8 | CHINON | Nuclear | 3,816 |
| 9 | BLAYAIS | Nuclear | 3,804 |
| 10 | DAMPIERRE | Nuclear | 3,748 |
| 11 | BUGEY | Nuclear | 3,724 |
| 12 | CIVAUX | Nuclear | 3,122 |
| 13 | CHOOZ | Nuclear | 3,120 |
| 14 | PENLY | Nuclear | 2,764 |
| 15 | ST ALBAN | Nuclear | 2,762 |
| 16 | BELLEVILLE | Nuclear | 2,726 |
| 17 | GOLFECH | Nuclear | 2,726 |
| 18 | NOGENT | Nuclear | 2,726 |
| 19 | PORCHEVILLE | Oil | 2,300 |
| 20 | ST LAURENT | Nuclear | 1,912 |
Inzonex PowerAtlas (2026). Asset-level power-plant CO2 emissions — France. Derived from WRI GPPD, Climate TRACE, US EPA GHGRP and EU ETS (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/poweratlas/france/
There are 2,216 power plants in France in this open dataset, with about 131,951 MW of total capacity.
Le Carnet nuclear power plant is the largest at about 6,000 MW (nuclear).
The most common plant type in this dataset is solar (817 plants), across 11 fuel types in total.
France's grid carbon intensity is about 41 gCO₂/kWh, with 94.9% low-carbon generation (<a href="https://ember-energy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ember</a> / <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy" rel="nofollow">Our World in Data</a> (CC BY 4.0)).
Power plants in France