Wind, solar parks produce 5.8% of all electricity in France on Sunday

January 24 (Renewables Now) - France wind parks produced 60,582 MWh of electricity on January 23, accounting for 3.89% of the power generation mix for the day, while solar contributed 1.90%.

The total electrical output yesterday stood at 1,556,430 MWh, live data by transmission system operator (TSO) RTE show. Details are available in the table below.

Power source	Power output in MWh	Share in %
Biomass	8,607	0.55
Coal	25,203	1.62
Natural gas	198,098	12.73
Nuclear	1,159,712	74.51
Oil	5,077	0.33
Run-of-river and poundage hydro	78,924	5.07
Pumped storage hydro	-34,729	-2.23
Water reservoir hydro	19,722	1.27
Solar	29,618	1.90
Waste	5,616	0.36
Wind onshore	60,582	3.89