The sun rises in power in France - February 8, 2010
Of course, the sector still weighs very little: less than 0.01% of electricity production. However, the new capacity installed in France more than doubled last year from 105 megawatts (MW) in 2008 to 250 in 2009. That told the firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers, which was published on Sunday his second barometer of the photovoltaic industry, it is poised to emerge as a strategic sector in the French energy mix to include about 15 000 direct jobs at horizon of 2012. The process is definitely underway, failing infrastructure impressive.
Other figures highlighted by this report reflect this rise.In terms of market size in particular, increasing the installed capacity along with the development of connections that are central France now occupies the seventh largest in the world, a jump of five places behind Italy and ahead of China . The Hexagon, however, displays a solar power panel of 425 MW, well below the world's leading solar power that are Germany (9 000 MW) and Spain (3 600 MW in April 2009).
New entrants
This growth will she undermined by the new feed-in tariffs for solar electricity, less advantageous, which were the subject of a decree earlier this year? Less advantageous actually from 2012, with a gradual decrease accelerated."While growth looks more moderate, but it will also be healthier," says Benjamin Cros, senior manager in charge of energy within the cluster strategy consulting PWC flexcheck cash advance . Way of saying that these subsidized rates have generated a strong speculative movement and the importance of putting good order in the service of a true industrial policy and not "bounty hunters".
As for installers and distributors, the development of the sector would lead to short-term phenomenon of consolidation. "Great players are on the lookout and you should see a surge of new entrants, either direct access or through acquisitions and partnerships," says Benjamin Cros.In this regard, the tenders under the Grenelle Environment to build a solar power plant in each region should provide valuable lessons on the ambitions of each other. Result in the coming weeks.
In the upstream, however, the situation is less bright. "The French manufacturers of modules are still few, non-integrated and fragile. Even as technology continues to evolve and that disruptions are expected, against a background of predominantly silicon, "says the report. A delay industrial penalizing as lower production costs is necessary to maintain the dynamism of the sector.
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