France concludes C&I rooftop PV tender with average price of €0.08527/kWh

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France’s Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition has announced the winners of its second round of tenders for commercial and industrial rooftop PV systems for the 2021-26 period, with generation capacities exceeding 500 kW.

The French authorities allocated 122.1 MW of solar power through the procurement exercise across 38 projects at an average final price of €0.08527/kWh. For comparison, in the first tender the allocated capacity was 157 MW with an average final price of €0.08312/kWh.

The biggest project is a 10.36 MW rooftop power plant in the northeastern department of Haut-Rhin, planned by Urbasolar. It is followed by a 10.15 MW Fruehauf project planned by SPV PV19 in Yonne. In geographical terms, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur won nine projects, just ahead of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with eight projects.

In the last procurement exercise of the previous scheme, the final average price was €87.23/MWh.

 

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