Major energy producers
The Dunkirk area is home to major energy companies with production sites offering reliable access to utilities and various energy sources.
Thanks to a diversified energy supply and production, including a growing share of renewable energy, the area is able to meet the energy demands of local industries and new businesses.
The main production sites are:
- the Gravelines nuclear power plant,
- the LNG terminal,
- the DK6 combined cycle power plant, which recovers blast furnace gas, etc.
Read the testimonial from Ms Champion, Sales Director at RTE in Lille, who talks about the network operator’s investments to secure electricity supplies.
New and Renewable Energy Production Sites
The Dunkirk area is home to multiple energy production and exchange facilities (electricity, biofuels, hydrogen, LNG, methane, BioNGV, heat, cooling, steam, etc.).
The metropolitan area also offers a growing share of renewable energy and has a low-carbon electricity mix.
- In 2024, 32.7 billion kWh of low-carbon energy was produced by the Gravelines nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Western Europe with an installed capacity of 5,400 MW.
- 2: the CNPE site is a candidate to host two EPR2 reactors for an additional 3,340 MW of power.
- 600 MW: the capacity of the wind farm planned off the coast of Dunkirk in 2027.
- 40 MW: the production capacity of the photovoltaic power plants to be developed by 2023 in the port areas of Dunkirk.
- No. 1: Dunkirk is also home to TotalEnergies’ most powerful battery-based electricity storage site in France. Located in the Etablissement des Flandres and with a capacity of 61 MW, it will ensure the stability of the electricity grid between consumption and production.
