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1Calculation factorsElectricity consumed by one person in France, 1 year (reference)
All the electricity consumed in mainland France in 2025, including housing, businesses, public services, transport and network losses, divided by the number of inhabitants. Projet Celsius estimate.
- The figure covers the electricity of housing, businesses, public services and transport, including self-consumption and network losses.
- Out of scope: pumping at energy transfer stations, power plant auxiliaries and the overseas departments.
Sentence to citeElectricity consumed by one person in France, 1 year (reference), Projet Celsius estimate: 6.7 MWh of electricity, based on RTE and Insee.
Origin of the value
Projet Celsius divides the gross consumption published by RTE (446.1 TWh) by the population estimated by Insee on 1 January 2026 (66.8 million).
Characteristics
| Unit | 1 person, 1 year |
|---|---|
| Location | not applicable: a published total does not depend on the location of the servers |
| Counted | the electricity of housing, businesses, public services and transport, including self-consumption and network losses |
| Not counted | pumping at energy transfer stations, power plant auxiliaries and the overseas departments |
| Status | estimated, 1 reading with the same scope, 2 other published values |
All the characteristics
| Identifier | IA-0120, projetcelsius.com/en/ai/database/IA-0120/ |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.1 of 13 November 2026 |
| Category | Infrastructure, published as is |
| Choice of the selected value | value taken as it stands from its source, without calculation |
| Sources | RTE, 2026 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Sources of the calculation
1 publication, for this entry and those used to calculate it, with the chosen parameters.
Energy and factors
The references of the selected values and of the entries used in this calculation.
RTE · March 2026
Role and limits : RTE
What the publication covers. gross and adjusted consumption, production and exchanges of electricity in mainland France, Corsica included
What it does not cover. the overseas departments
Reading by the database. The annual reference of the transmission system operator
Electricity used by one person →
Reference of the selected value
Scope of the figure used. Mainland France, 2025: gross consumption of 446.1 TWh divided by 66.8 million inhabitants on 1 January 2026
Limit. A calculation by the database from two published figures; the population on 1 January 2026 is a provisional Insee estimate (Insee Première n° 2087, Bilan démographique 2025)
Published values
3 figures for the same quantity, each in its own scope.
| Source | Date | Electricity | What the figure measures | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electricity use of one personselected by the database, v0.1 | 2026 | 6.68 MWh | the value selected by the database | same scope | estimated |
| RTE ↗Bilan électrique 2025, rapport complet | March 2026 | 446 TWh | Mainland France, 2025, gross consumption, not weather-adjusted, including self-consumption and losses, excluding pumping and auxiliaries | other scope | measured |
| RTE ↗Bilan électrique 2025, rapport complet | March 2026 | 451 TWh | Mainland France, 2025, consumption adjusted for weather and calendar effects | other scope | estimated |
| Database checks and calculations | |||||
| RTE and Insee, Projet Celsius calculation ↗Bilan électrique 2025, rapport complet | March 2026 | 6.68 MWh | Mainland France, 2025: gross consumption of 446.1 TWh divided by 66.8 million inhabitants on 1 January 2026 | same scope | computation |
The published figures do not all count the same scope; the scope of each figure is written next to it. Why do the estimates diverge?
Methodology conventions
With their alternatives
| The rule | a published total is reproduced as is, with its year and scope; it is not converted with an average factor and does not add to the database's calculations |
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| Calculate a case without an entry | The formula, the default values and a step-by-step example |
History
Entry in version 0.1 of 13 November 2026, in the database in version 0.4
- 13 November 2026Version 0.1 of the entry, as of the date of its current value.
- 31 October 2026Creation of the database, in its first version (0.1).
