Gradient coefficients of dynamic profiles

Enedis has published since January 2020 the gradient coefficients of the dynamic consumption profiles used in the capacity mechanism. This information makes it possible to take into account the effects of temperature on customers’ electricity consumption. They are thus essential in order to estimate (extrapolate) the consumption in times of extreme cold of each supplier and thus fix the amount of “capacity” (production/delete) that each of them must have to cover the “at the cutting edge” consumption of its customers, in order to secure the supply of the French electricity system. The (winter) sensitivity of electricity consumption to temperatures is high, rising to nearly 2 000 MW/°C over certain hours of the day at the Enedis perimeter. Dynamic gradient coefficients are used in the capacity mechanism controls to extrapolate the consumption of dynamically profiled customers during very cold periods. To learn more about the capacity mechanism: <HTTPS://WWW.ENEDIS.FR/MECANISME-DE-CAPACITE-JE-SUIS-ACTEUR-OBLIGE> Learn more about dynamic profiles: <HTTPS://DATA.ENEDIS.FR/EXPLORE/DATASET/COEFFICIENTS-DES-PROFILS/INFORMATION>