France

/LONDON, April 29, 2026, 9:00 BST, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH™/ ROSI is building a new industrial site in Spain with a 10,000-tonne annual capacity and has appointed Thierry Galvez as Director of ROSI Alpes. ROSI renew its partnership with Soren.

/PARIS, FRANCE, February 24, 2026, 13:00 CET, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCH™/ Iberdrola France has finalised the sale of its entire onshore renewable energy portfolio in France, marking a significant step in the company’s strategic realignment. This sale is consistent with Iberdrola Group’s broader strategy to concentrate its investments on core business areas, such as regulated energy […]

/LONDON, February 28, 2025, 11:30 GMT, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ France is among the best performers in Europe in the share of installed small-scale solar generation capacity (<1 MW). The French residential solar market is currently in a state of rapid growth. This growth is being driven by a number of factors, including rising electricity prices, the desire for energy independence, the increasing availability of financing options, and the growing popularity of solar battery storage systems. The current cumulative installed PV capacity in France grew up from 1 GW in 2010…

/FRANCE, January 28, 2025, 19:55 CET, Iberdrola/ Iberdrola has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with AGRATI Group, which specializes in the production of fastening systems and mechanical components. Starting in 2025, AGRATI will purchase all the electricity generated by the Florembeau wind farm, located in the commune of Créquy, in the Pas-de-Calais region. This wind farm comprises 5 turbines with a total output of 10.25 MW. An annual output of 21 GWh/y will be sold to AGRATI starting in 2025.

/PARIS, FRANCE, November 28, 2024, 11:00 CET, TSE/ After raising 130 million euros in equity from Eurazeo, Crédit Agricole and Bpifrance in 2023, TSE, a developer and producer of solar energy in France, is strengthening its financing structure by raising a bond debt for an amount of 65 million euros today from the Eiffel Investment Group fund. Thanks to this operation, the group is continuing its development to reach more than 1 gigawatt of assets under construction and in operation by 2027, in line with its strategic roadmap.

/LONDON, July 16, 2024, 11:30 BST, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ France is among the best performers in Europe in the share of installed small-scale solar generation capacity (<1 MW). The French residential solar market is currently in a state of rapid growth. This growth is being driven by a number of factors, including rising electricity prices, the desire for energy independence, the increasing availability of financing options, and the growing popularity of solar battery storage systems. The current cumulative installed PV capacity in France grew up from 1 GW in 2010…

/BRUSSELS, January 8, 2024, 12:00 GMT, European Commission, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ The European Commission has approved a €2.9 billion French scheme for supporting investment in green industries (tax credit for investment in green industries) to foster the transition towards a net-zero economy, in line with the Green Deal Industrial Plan. The scheme was approved under the State aid Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework, adopted by the Commission on 9 March 2023 and amended on 20 November 2023, to support measures in sectors which are crucial for accelerating the green transition and…

/LONDON, January 27, 2023, 11:35 GMT, Iberdrola/ Iberdrola has been awarded four agrovoltaic projects with a total capacity of 12 megawatts (MW) in the renewable energy innovation tenders launched by the French Ministry of Energy Transition. As a prerequisite and priority, the projects focus on innovation criteria, care for the environment and improvement of agriculture and livestock farming on the land on which they are implemented while maximising electricity production takes second place. Innovation that contributes to normalising the coexistence of the energy and agricultural sectors.

/12th January 2021, SolarPower Europe, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ France crossed the significant capacity threshold of 10 GW installed in 2020. It is now halfway towards its MAEP (Multi-Annual Energy Programme) goal of 20.1 GW of solar capacity by 2023, according to SolarPower Europe. Secondly, despite the impact of the pandemic, France produced 4.46 TWh of solar in the third quarter of 2020, thereby beating its record from 2019 (4.43 TWh). This is a significant achievement and an important step towards building back better. Solar photovoltaic (PV) power in the European Union had…