Consult the comprehensive information on market mechanisms and access a list of dates for the next planned provisions.

RTE has adopted a proactive approach to managing these compensations and the associated corrections to balance perimeters. It has also launched a project to industrialise the compensation process. This page will help you implement this change.

Do you have questions regarding the impacts and implementation of the 15-minute imbalance settlement period? RTE has set up an FAQ page to guide you.

RTE will work with you, investigating flexible connection solutions that optimise your location, deadlines and costs.

Discover the stages of connection and/or remuneration of storage units through market mechanisms.

Discover the different market mechanisms under which your generation, storage and consumption flexibility assets can be remunerated.

RTE finds you the best flexible connection solutions to optimise your localisation, timelines and cost requirements.

Distribution system operators play a vital role in enabling the demand response mechanisms to work properly. In particular, DSOs have to send RTE data for each mechanism.

System data used to invoice for various components of access to the transmission system (injection, load withdrawal, reactive power, contract power exceedances, and more). These data are validated and available from the following day.

For industrial sites sensitive to the power quality, RTE offers optional solutions to monitor it continuously, with commitments on voltage dips.

To perform an activity on the French electricity market, you must designate a balance responsible party or become a balance responsible party.

Provide RTE with reserves that can be activated in less than 13 or 30 minutes to counteract incidents occurring in real time on the public transmission system.

Notification in close to real time by email and/or text message, when your active power reaches or exceeds a pre-notification threshold for your contract power.

Ensure security of supply in France through obligation of obligated parties and by providing generation and demand response capacities in exchange for remuneration.

RTE informs you about the overhaul of the capacity mechanism.

Raw or validated data for each of your meters, in close to real time, intradaily, or from the following day.

As the operator of the Electricity Transmission System, RTE is required to ensure that compensation is provided for energy lost on the grid as it transits the high and extra high voltage network (due to the Joule effect).

RTE will notify you, by email, when you exceed your calculated reactive power overrun threshold, or at each day exceeded, depending on your preferences.

Meter data from sites related to your portfolio, in close to real time, intradaily, or from the following day.

Modernisation of devices that collect data from your meters using the IP (internet protocol): digitalisation of these interfaces provides you with close to real time access to your data.

France is interconnected with 6 European countries. You can import and export energy on European markets

Notification in close to real time by email and/or text message, when your active power reaches a previously defined consumption pre-notification or notification threshold in kW.

Develop you carbon-free flexibility capacity by answering the carbon-free flexibilities call for tenders.

The Block Exchange Notification of Demand Response mechanism, known as “NEBEF”, allows consumers to participate in energy markets through load reductions.

Raw or validated physical data, in close to real time or from the following day.

This page regroups links to RTE's market applications.

Provide RTE with an interruptible reserve greater than 10 MW to face critical situations in the operation of the power system.

Get additional revenue by supplying voltage system services to RTE.

Fill in the online form to obtain an EIC code valid in the European electricity market or check the list of current EIC codes.

ARENH, which stands for 'Regulated Access to Incumbent Nuclear Electricity', is a right that entitles suppliers to purchase electricity generated by nuclear power plants at a regulated price.

Access our market services contact info, customer services and hotline, at your disposal for any questions.

RTE publishes residual stresses forecasted on its network by region over a 3-5 year horizon, as an incentive for optimal location of investments in third party flexibility services.

Get remuneration for your available capacity while contributing to the balancing of the French and European power system via the balancing mechanism.

Ensuring access in technical terms to the network and contributing to the balancing of the French and European power system.

Get remuneration for your available capacity for frequency ancillary services while contributing to the balancing of the French and European power system.

For industrial sites sensitive to the power quality, RTE offers optional solutions to monitor it continuously, with commitments on voltage dips.

At your request, RTE will take into account any damages suffered by the consumption sites connected to your facility, in addition to compensation for damages suffered by your own facilities.

RTE covers the consequences of any incidents upstream of your site’s evacuation network.

Become a participant in the evolution of the power system by participating in the consultation within the French Power Transmission System Users' Committee (CURTE).

RTE has published the information elements concerning the public transmission system access tariff. You can also find: explanatory brochures, TURPE 6 tariff lists, and the associated service offering.

Obtain detailed data on renewable energy reception capacities.

RTE is giving you access to its specific maintenance plan for submarine cables connecting offshore wind farms.

Whether you are a consumer customer or generators, the accounting service allows you to differentiate energy flows to access the market.

Every year, RTE produces a report for the past year on the power system's operational reliability.

This service provides you with a device, called a transducer, to measure your electrical quantities in real time.

This personalised service aims to minimise the impact of scheduled works on your operations, where feasible.

The operations for network isolation service enables isolation then reconnection of your transmission system facility in order to safely carry out works on your site.

Whether you are connected or require connection to the Public Transmission System, you must have a CART contract. Here is an overview of the CART.

This custom service enables physical and permanent disconnection of all or part of the customer’s substation from the RPT.

Be remunerated for your flexibility services during experimental tenders to manage congestion on the public transport system, with the aim of delaying or avoiding network adaptations.

RTE informs you, by email and/or text message, when an incident detected on the RTE network may have caused a disturbance to the power supply of your site.

In the event of unscheduled unavailability of the subsea part of the evacuation network of a generation facility located at sea, RTE will be liable for a penalty if the service to the subsea part of the evacuation network is not fully restored within a maximum of 60 days.

Some services require secure access to the RTE information system and to applications adapted to these services. Find out how to get your access.

Are you looking for easier ways to manage your invoices? RTE offers a range of services to accompany you on a daily basis.

RTE is conducting a survey of interests as part of its interaction studies between power electronics-based converters and generators, using EMT tools.

This service offers all customers who have entered into a CART contract with RTE the opportunity to independently manage their CART data that have a price impact on the invoicing of access to the transmission system.

RTE is studying connection solutions which comply with the specifications of a competitive tender process.

RTE is holding this seminar to help you better understand the issues associated with power system reliability in your region and the importance of your contribution to the process.

This service provides you with a direct connection to your meter’s pulse outputs without passing through RTE’s digital portals.

This service offers all customers who have entered into a contract or participation agreement with RTE the ability to view or download all of their contract documents.

RTE provides many public and private data services to enable its customers to manage their activities on the electricity transmission system. From the meter to the data catalogue, beginners or experts, we invite you to discover the RTE data offer.

What are high voltage stresses? What are the solutions?

Do you have trouble differentiating between voltage dips and outages? RTE provides information to help you.

This service allows market participants (certified entity holders, capacity portfolio managers and obligated parties) to download the notification file of the actual capacity level (NCE) and obligation calculation results.

This service allows you to declare your project forecasts in order to plan a network infrastructure to connect them.

At your request, RTE conducts a contradictory verification of the proper operation of your metering installations.

At your request, RTE is relocating the metering installation.

The offshore algorithm accounting service allows you to differentiate your energy flows in order to benefit from the feed in tariff contract of CFT 1 or CFT 2.

Do you have any questions about the implementation of the provisions of the law? RTE has set up an FAQ page for you

RTE has published a map of all the pooling areas for the hosting of consumption. This mapping displays all of the areas under study or validated by the CRE, their perimeter, and in the case of the validated areas, the amount of the unit share, as well as the planned works and their progress.

Whether you are an Infrastructure Manager (IM) or a Railway Undertaking (RU), this accounting service allows you to differentiate your respective energy flows so that you can freely select your electricity supplier on the market.

RTE publishes a map of hosting capacities for storage. It displays, for each electrical substation, the highest hosting capacity (in MW) available for a storage facility without power limitation.