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EDF partners with the world leader in solar panels




by recyclinage » 24/07/09, 12:36

EDF partners with the world leader in solar panels
Marielle Court and Bruno Jacquot
24 / 07 / 2009 | Updated: 08: 31 | Add to my selection
EDF Énergies nouvelles and the American company First Solar will build a factory in France.

Ninety million euros of investment, 300 jobs ... Thursday, EDF Energies Nouvelles and the American company First Solar signed an agreement with Jean-Louis Borloo providing for the construction of the largest solar panel factory in France . "For me, this is proof that green growth is a reality in France", welcomed the Minister of Ecology. According to the agreement concluded yesterday, EDF Énergies nouvelles will finance half of the investment and start-up costs. In return, the EDF subsidiary will be the sole client of the site for the first ten years of operation.

It remains to choose the location, which could be Saint-Auban in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. After the closure of an Arkema factory, a solar panel company, Silicium de Provence (Silpro) was to take over. With its receivership, the project remained in the plan.

This agreement also marks the alliance of two solar energy start-ups. On the one hand, therefore, EDF Énergies nouvelles, 1 billion euros in turnover. Pâris Mouratoglou founded the company in 1990 to operate wind farms and solar power plants. It became a subsidiary of EDF in 2000. As for First Solar, which achieved a turnover of 1,2 billion dollars in 2008, it has established itself in ten years of existence as the world leader in solar panels. . Two years ago, it inaugurated its first European factory in Germany.

Rather than the conventional technique of panels made from silicon, First Solar has successfully relied on a technology using a thin-film semiconductor material, cadmium tellurium, a much faster manufacturing process (two and a half hours for a sign).

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Going fast and above all not missing a second time the technological market of renewable energies is one of the obsessions of Jean-Louis Borloo. In 1979, when Photowatt was founded, it was the market leader. But France had not shifted. "The battle for global industrial sectors is launched," said the Minister of Ecology. France aims to play a leading role in this revolution. ”

"We must make decisions for renewable energies as important as those which were taken by de Gaulle in the 1960s in favor of nuclear power," declared Nicolas Sarkozy in June. In France, photovoltaic solar energy is really taking off. At the end of 2007, France was producing 27 megawatts (MW). We went to 100 MW at the end of the first quarter of 2009. This is the annual consumption of 100 inhabitants. Most of it is solar integrated into the frame.

On May 15, a call for tenders was launched for the construction of at least one solar power plant in each French region for a cumulative power of 300 MW. It is a total investment of 1,5 billion euros over three years. For 2020, France has set a target of 5 MW from solar energy, the equivalent of the production of a large nuclear reactor. France intends to increase the share of renewable energies in energy consumption to at least 400% by 23. We are around 2020% today.








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by simseb » 24/07/09, 12:44

Is there any way not to appeal to foreign and especially American companies? :frown:

The minimum would be to buy in Europe.
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by jlt22 » 24/07/09, 14:47

Rather than the conventional technique of panels made from silicon, First Solar has successfully relied on a technology using a thin-film semiconductor material, cadmium tellurium, a much faster manufacturing process (two and a half hours for a sign).


If that could at least make it possible to lower the cost of the panels appreciably and to improve their output.
It would be a good operation.
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