I think you included transportation in your stats: planes, cars, trucks and boats. The electrical mix in France includes only 8% from fossil fuels, of which 7% come from natural gas. The rest is mostly nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar. In that order.

France also regularly sells its surplus to neighboring countries.

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masklinn a year ago | parent | next [-]

> France also regularly sells its surplus to neighboring countries.

And in order to do that it has pretty massive lines to neighbours meaning it also acts as an exchange platform (for a profit) e.g. if there are strong winds it can buy electricity from an oversupplied german grid and sell it to italy.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/24h provides live views of the european electricity grids, and France is the only country which is consistently green (and often dark green aka under 50gCO2eq/kWh) without being blessed with enough hydro for most or all of its requirements (as Iceland and Norway are).

	▲	elihu a year ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting to see they have data for Russia now. I think that's new.

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fsh a year ago | parent | prev [-]

Most countries use way more primary energy for heating and transportation than for electricity generation. It would be disingenuous not to include this.

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RandomThoughts3 a year ago | parent [-]

It’s fairly disingenuous to mix both actually when they don’t mingle. Especially when you consider that both heating and transportation are going in the direction of using more electricity which is actually favorable to the French choice.

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globular-toast a year ago | parent [-]

Energy is energy. Why make a special category for heating and transport?

	▲	gmueckl a year ago \| parent [-]
		It's because the energy sources, technical implementation and uses are so vastly different between the power grid, heating and transportation.