France is among the many prime nations for important progress in photo voltaic vitality era in recent times, and that continued within the third quarter. The Ministry of Ecological Transition has shared the latest knowledge from its third-quarter (Q3) 2024 photo voltaic photovoltaic vitality dashboard.
“As of September 30, 2024, [power from solar PV parks] reached 23.7 GW. In the course of the first three quarters of 2024, an extra 3.5 GW have been related, in comparison with 2.3 GW throughout the identical interval in 2023. Electrical energy manufacturing from photovoltaic photo voltaic sources quantities to 21.1 TWh throughout the first three quarters of 2024, up 9% in comparison with the identical interval in 2023. It represents, excluding self-consumption, 6.2% of French electrical energy consumption over this era,” the Ministry of Ecological Transition writes.
The picturesque south of France leads because the area with the very best put in capacities. The Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes areas accounted for 48% of the territory’s newly related energy throughout the first three quarters of 2024. These areas at present have the biggest put in capacities, accounting for 52% of France’s complete solar energy within the third quarter of 2024. The Nouvelle-Aquitaine supplies lots of encouragement to all builders, together with farmers, reminiscent of offering info reminiscent of agrivoltaic feasibility assessments.
The Ministry of Ecological Transition continues on the evolution of photo voltaic photovoltaic park installations within the nation. “As of September 30, 2024, the [power capacity of photovoltaic solar parks] reached 23.7 GW, together with 22.9 GW in mainland France. The newly related energy is 3.5 GW over the primary three quarters of 2024, in comparison with 2.3 GW over the identical interval in 2023. A 3rd (34%) of the brand new related energy corresponds to installations of greater than 500 kW, which signify solely 0.1% of the variety of new connections. Smaller installations, lower than 9 kW, signify 92% of the variety of newly related models and 20% of the brand new energy. The ability of tasks within the queue has elevated by 68% because the final quarter of 2023 to succeed in 37.6 GW, together with 11.2 GW with a signed connection settlement.”
That coated energy capability. What about photovoltaic photo voltaic electrical energy manufacturing? That amounted to 21.1 TWh within the third quarter of 2024, up from 19.4 TWh over the identical interval in 2023. Excluding self-consumption, photo voltaic electrical energy manufacturing represented 6.2% of French electrical energy consumption for the primary three quarters of 2024. This share is 0.5 proportion factors larger than the share of photo voltaic manufacturing in French electrical energy consumption within the first three quarters of 2023.
Beneath is a visible illustration of the place solar energy is put in in France (how a lot in every area).
Photo voltaic PV Self-Consumption
“Within the third quarter of 2024, 56.4% of photovoltaic installations (13.8% of put in capability) produce electrical energy that’s absolutely or partially self-consumed. The share of those installations will increase in quantity by 2.8 factors and in energy by 1.1 factors in comparison with the earlier quarter. Within the third quarter of 2024, 579 GWh of photovoltaic electrical energy was self-consumed by producers, or 6.4% of the quarter’s photovoltaic manufacturing. Installations in complete self-consumption produced 130 GWh, or 23% of the whole self-consumed. They signify 17% of the metropolitan self-consumption fleet and 10% oMf the whole metropolitan fleet.”
As a remaining word, the outcomes of the quarter are nonetheless provisional. They’re prone to be revised, most frequently upwards, within the following quarters. As you may see under, the yellow bars point out preliminary estimates, and the brown ones point out remaining values.
