Featured in From the ground up – 04-2024

Can French PV pull ahead?

Two industrial projects in France plan to be producing 20 million solar modules per year between them by 2027, despite existential fears among current French PV manufacturers, who want policy support to reduce competition from Asian imports.

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Gwénaëlle Deboutte, Marie Beyer

09 Apr 2024

Carbon plans to build a €1.5 billion, 5 GW ingot, cell, and module fab in Fos-sur-Mer, France. | Photo: Carbon

Two planned gigafactories could add 10 GW of annual solar module production capacity in France by 2027, in a market where incumbent manufacturers Voltec Solar, Photowatt and Systovi together have around 500 MW of production capacity.HoloSolis intends to build an €800 million ($871 million), 5 GW solar cell and module plant in Moselle, eastern France, …

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