France: market share of natural gas consumption

In the third quarter of 2022, 65 percent of the natural gas consumed in France was supplied by alternative suppliers. While roughly 75 percent of the gas consumed by non residential sites was purchased on the alternative market, most of the gas consumed by residential sites was supplied by historical suppliers or at regulated rates.

Natural gas retail market distribution between alternative and historical suppliers according to consumption in France on the 3rd quarter 2022, based on market segments

Market segments	Market offered by alternative suppliers*	Market offered by historical suppliers**	Regulated sales rate***
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Release date

March 2023

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Region

France

Survey time period

as of September 30, 2022

Supplementary notes

* Alternative suppliers: new businesses, as opposed to historical suppliers.

** Historical electricity suppliers: ENGIE environnement (ex GDF-Suez), Tegas, local power supply companies and their subsidiaries. An historical supplier can not be considered as an alternative one outside of its historical service area.(see CRE website)

*** Regulated sales rate only available by ENGIE, as opposed to market price sales available by historical and alternative suppliers.

Market distribution in three branches:

Non residential transport sites (172 TWh): large industrial sites connected to the transport network.
Non residential distribution sites (170 TWh): mass market of non residential sites and large industrial sites connected to the distribution network.
Residential sites (116 TWh): individual customer consumption sites.

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