2026 Flexibility Barometer: bringing technical management closer to price signals
Published on 17 April 2026, Enedis's barometer finds that electricity consumption is not yet aligned with decarbonisation and reindustrialisation objectives.
On 17 April 2026, Enedis published its Barometer of Electricity Consumption Flexibility, which tracks year by year the development trajectory of flexibility.
The observatory makes a blunt finding: 2025 showed that electricity consumption is not, for the time being, aligned with France's decarbonisation and reindustrialisation objectives.
The value of developing demand-side flexibility to support electrification is, by contrast, confirmed. The challenge for the coming years is to meet both of these challenges together.
The barometer describes a structural trend observed worldwide: developing day-to-day consumption flexibility in order to reduce bills and make the most of the power system, by adapting to its new rhythms.
The document identifies one decisive technical prerequisite: benefiting from demand flexibility requires bringing the technical management of buildings and industrial processes closer to price signals. In 2025, sector players developed the missing building blocks to facilitate this convergence.
It is precisely at this junction — between fine-grained measurement of energy uses and the response to economic signals — that the monetisation of industrial flexibility is decided.