France PV Industry: an ambitious photovoltaic industrial project to accelerate the ecological transition in France. Key players in French solar, the Alsatian industrialist Voltec Solar and the Photovoltaic Institute of Île-de-France (IPVF) are joining forces to give birth to a new photovoltaic industrial sector.
To build in France and Europe a set of gigafactories for wafers, cells and photovoltaic modules, capable of producing 5 GW in 2025 and more than 20 GW by 2030, by integrating the core of the value chain, from ingot growth to the assembly of photovoltaic modules.
French industrial company Carbon plans the construction of a 5 GW PV cell and module factory in Southern France. Carbons's integrated gigafactory project for photovoltaic cells and modules in Fos-sur-Mer, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, aims to contribute to France's ambition for reindustrialization.
It is likely to shake up the competitive landscape and France is today ahead, provided that industrial deployment, which is intended to be ambitious, takes place. This is one of the conditions for success in photovoltaics. » assures Lucas Weiss, general manager of Voltec Solar.
This is a concrete illustration of our desire for reconquest”, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister of Energy Transition said. "This announcement by Carbon is good news for the French and European photovoltaic industry that we aim to revitalize.
France and Europe must quickly reposition themselves in the photovoltaic value chain to avoid shifting from one dependence to another. This is a concrete illustration of our desire for reconquest”, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister of Energy Transition said.