zhengzaishuru/Shutterstock Save for later Print Download Share As many predict a substantial global increase in electricity demand in the coming years, France is facing electricity oversupply amid lackluster demand, slow electrification and quickly increasing wind and solar production. France is trying to attract data centers to increase demand and is already the EU鈥檚 biggest electricity exporter, but its grid operator is warning of tensions from oversupply and is having to increasingly curtail renewable and nuclear generation in the near term. France's example illustrates the possible tension created when grid decarbonization and clean energy build-out outpaces electrification, a situation that could be repeated in the near term in other European countries.
