Enedis
France's electricity distribution operator; 95% of the grid, newly authorised to run local flexibility-market trials.
Enedis runs 95% of France's electricity distribution grid, and on 30 July 2026 regulator CRE authorised it and RTE to trial the country's first local flexibility market, buying demand response and storage at distribution level.
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Enedis is the state distribution operator running 95% of France's electricity grid, a subsidiary of EDF managing around 1.4 million km of low and medium voltage lines for 38.8 million customers. It was renamed from ERDF in 2016 by regulator CRE, to reduce confusion with parent EDF.
As the near-monopoly distributor, Enedis sits at the point where any French move toward local demand response or distributed storage has to pass. That made it, alongside transmission operator RTE, the natural vehicle for CRE's 30 July 2026 decision approving experimental rules for local flexibility-market trials, the first authorised French framework of its kind for procuring flexibility below transmission level.
The trial authorisation does not itself change what Enedis is; it extends the operator's existing REMIT into a new procurement role, on top of the connection and metering functions it already runs across almost the entire country.