France trims solar power rates for small systems connecting in Q2

Rooftop solar system in France. Author: David TREBOSC. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic

France is reducing again the tariffs for purchase of electricity from small solar photovoltaic (PV) systems connecting to the grid in the second quarter of 2016.

Details on the new rates are given in the table below, as released by energy regulator Commission de Regulation de l'Energie (CRE).

Type	Capacity	Rates for April-June 2016
building integrated	0-9 kW	EUR 0.2465/kWh
rooftop 1	0-36 kW	EUR 0.1326/kWh
rooftop 2	36-100 kW	EUR 0.1263/kWh
not-integrated or ground-mounted	0-12 MW	EUR 0.058/kWh

At 24 MWp in the first quarter of 2016, requests for grid-connection of building-integrated arrays smaller or equal in capacity to 9 kWp remained somewhat unchanged in both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter terms, said CRE. Tariffs for this category go down by 1.5%.

CRE further said connection applications for simplified building-integrated or rooftop systems with capacities lower or equal to 100 kWp stood at 85 MWp in the first quarter. This is an increase of over 2.5 times over the year-ago period, but also a 25% decline from the preceding quarter. Tariffs for this group go down by 4%.

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