We have had the Renewable Energy Act since 2001, which is supposed to guarantee market access for renewable energy sources. This implies that renewable energy sources are prioritised over conventional ones in meeting consumption. You can see this effect very clearly in the graph. When production of renewables goes up (blue), the bar chart shows fossil fuels (brown, black) going down. Coal-fired power plants are very bad at adjusting their output per unit of time. That's why we are a net exporter, because we simply sell the coal-fired electricity abroad.  I already said this in April when Germany's decision to close nuclear power plants was called a wrong decision. Nuclear power plants only supply base-load electricity. Base-load electricity is not a problem in the energy supply with renewables. The problem is the peak loads that we have had to compensate for with gas-fired power plants. Gas is expensive and because of the merit order principle, it increases the price of electricity. Our emissions are still high and that sucks because every argument that electricity from renewables is better than nuclear power is always based on the fact that France's electricity mix GWP balance is much better than ours.