France's set up solar, wind capacity grows to 31.7 GW

• France brought online roughly 2.76 GW of brand-new solar as well as wind turbine capacity in the very first 3 quarters of 2021 as well as reached 13.23 GW of solar and also 18.54 GW of cumulative wind installments, the current government stats show.

The residential solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) industry placed on stream 2,034 MW of plants in January-September, marking a year-on-year increase of 167%. The year-ago duration saw the appointing of only 761 MW of solar farms. According to the French energy ministry's Department of Data as well as Statistical Studies (SDES), the development in releases is credited to the grid-connection of larger plants as well as the raised number of powered-up systems.

The biggest section of brand-new grid-connected solar farms was registered approximately Nw Aquitaine as well as Occitanie, which made up 448 MW and 339 MW of the overall set up capacity, specifically.

Solar power production in the first nine months of 2021 amounted to 12.5 TWh, up from 11.4 TWh a year earlier back. Photovoltaics provided 3.7% of the country's power demand throughout the coverage duration.

On the other hand, 70 wind farms totalling 726 MW started feeding electrical power to the grid in January-September, which was 3% less than a year prior to. Around 60% of the capacity that became operational in the initial three quarters of the year came from setups ranging in between 8 MW and 12 MW. Hauts-de-France as well as New Aquitaine were the areas with the highest possible mounted capacity in the period, contributing 213 MW as well as 129 MW, respectively.

France's wind parks generated 26.2 TWh of electricity in January-September and also was accountable for 7.7% of the nationwide electrical power intake. The power result was 6% reduced from a year before because of the much less favourable climate condition.