France unveils tender schedule for 1,350 MW of rooftop solar

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

French energy regulator CRE has officially published the schedule for the 9 lots that will tender a total of 1,350 MW of rooftop solar power installations by 2019.

The tenders will allow participation of projects with a nameplate capacity ranging from 100 kWp to 8 MWp, grouped into two distinct batches.

Batch 1 will include project with a capacity ranging from 100 kWp to 500 kWp. These will benefit from a power purchase contract at a feed-in tariff.

Batch 2 will group projects above 500 kWp, up to 8 MWp in capacity. They will benefit from a market premium remuneration.

Detailed schedule is available in the table below.

Lot	Period for submitting bids		Total capacity to be tendered (in MWp)
	From	To	Batch 1	Batch 2
1	24/02/2017	10/03/2017	75	75
2	23/06/2017	07/07/2017	75	75
3	23/10/2017	06/11/2017	75	75
4	23/02/2018	09/03/2018	75	75
5	22/06/2018	06/07/2018	75	75
6	22/10/2018	05/11/2018	75	75
7	22/02/2019	08/03/2019	75	75
8	21/06/2019	05/07/2019	75	75
9	21/10/2019	04/11/2019	75	75