[seec]

50% of the price in France is also taxes and network maintenance fees so your argument does not make sense.

The retail price is so high because it is a failure of both technology and politics. The taxes are that high because politically they decided to over-invest in a bad technological choice; pretending otherwise is an extremely bad faith argument.

[hollerith]

During the second half of 2023, the average price of electricity for residences in France was about 0.273 US dollars per kWh.