Is Germany cleaner than France today?

A scatter plot with Germany's and France's carbon intensities of generation on the x- and y-axes, respectively.
Each data point is one hour during 2024.
Out of 2518 data points, 0 lie above the line x = y, i.e., have Germany cleaner than France.

Figure 1: Each dot represents one of the 2518 hours with complete data^[†] so far this year. Germany was cleaner than France for 0 hours. France's dirtiest hour (90 gCO₂eq/kWh) had a lower carbon intensity than Germany's cleanest hour (116 gCO₂eq/kWh).

^[†] Occasionally some generation types report with long delays or are missing from ENTSO-E data. Hours for which not all expected generation types have reported are excluded.

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Is Germany cleaner than France today? No