France set up 379 MW of PV in H1

• France's advancing PV capability got to 10.3 GW at the end of June. Solar produced 6.7 TWh of power in the initial half of 2020, compared to 5.9 TWh throughout the exact same duration in 2019, representing 3.0% of French power intake.

The French authorities have actually published new solar stats for France, mostly by grouping with each other connection information given by grid drivers Enedis, RTE, EDF-SEI, as well as the national power regulatory authority, CRE.

Because of pandemic-related delays in link treatments, installations were much less than in previous years. Between January and also the end of June, less than 1% of 13,103 brand-new PV arrays were larger than 250 kW. These stood for 44% of the freshly connected power. Installations smaller sized than 9 kW accounted for virtually 84% of the total amount.

The areas of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, as well as Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur made up 67% of all brand-new additions in the initial fifty percent of 2020. The 4 areas additionally have the highest possible installed abilities in the nation, standing for 70% of the overall power attached in France at the end of the initial half.

Around 6.7 TWh of solar power was produced in the very first fifty percent of 2020, compared to 5.9 TWh in the initial 6 months of 2019. The authorities associated the boost to high solar radiations degrees in April as well as May. Solar production therefore stood for 3% of total French electrical power consumption, up 0.6 point from the previous year.