Europe matches rise of solar market's Giga-EPCs

May 11, 2023 12:27 PM ET
  • Greater than 35 of the globe's top solar power terminal builders contend least 1 GW AC of capacity under their belts-- and also 20 have currently covered 2 GW AC. Wiki-Solar's newest league table of utility-scale EPCs shows how the prominent constructors have actually remained to flourish as the market comes close to half a Terawatt of capacity.
Europe matches rise of solar market's Giga-EPCs

Restored development in the European market has helped German, Spanish, and also-- most especially-- French service providers equal their US and also Asian counterparts. "France is outside the top-ten countries for utility-scale solar, yet has 3 of the most significant EPCs, led by Eiffage and also Equans, both inside the leading 6", claims Wiki-Solar creator Philip Wolfe. Equans is currently part of Bouygues, complying with the latter's acquisition of Engie's solar building company.

America's SOLV Energy (formerly Swinerton) still holds leading spot complied with by an additional US erector, McCarthy Building, at number four. US-based First Solar owes its # 2 setting to historic installments, and will gradually be surpassed, now it has actually shed downstream construction tasks.

India's Tata is rising the table intending to join compatriots Sterling and also Wilson, Acme and Mahindra. Wiki-Solar is gradually conquering the information limitations, which had led to China's historic under-representation in its figures, so more companies are expected to join risers CMEC and SPIC in the future.

Amongst especially climbers reduced down the listing is German business Goldbeck Solar, which has actually raised its cumulative mounted capacity by 50% because the beginning of 2022.

Visitors are advised that Wiki-Solar measures capacity in MW AC supplied to the grid, consisting of only projects over 4 MW AC. The mounted capacities would certainly be approximately 25% greater if determined by the DC solar array outcome in MWp.

Many, but not all, of the leading operation and also maintenance service providers-- which Wiki-Solar checklists independently-- are firms in this leading builders table.

The table below consists of the leading 10 EPC contractors on the listing at Q1 2023. You can discover the full listing here: https://wiki-solar.org/company/contractor/

Rank

EPC contractor Operating GW AC Change since 01-Jan-22 (GW AC)
1 SOLV Energy [US] (formerly Swinerton) (inc.Swinerton Renewable Energy) 10.5 1.0
2 First Solar [US] 4.5 0.2
3 Eiffage [FR] 4.5 1.2
4 McCarthy Building [US] 4.2 1.7
5 Sterling & Wilson [IN] (part of SP India) 4.1 0.3
6 Equans (division of Bouygues) [FR] (inc. Fabricom) 3.1 0.4
7 Belectric [DE] (now part of Elevion) 3.0 0.2
8 Abengoa [ES] (inc. Abener Energia) 2.9 0.6
9 Enerparc [DE] 2.9 0.1
10 ACME Solar [IN] 2.9 0.7

The listing of top O&M contractors can be seen here: https://wiki-solar.org/company/maintenance/.

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