Relevant accents on French solar energy market.
For those who want to venture into the French solar energy market, this short article would serve as a guide.
I'll provide most important points what are stipulated from French customers, because of several regulations applied by the government, investors etc.
- First and one of the most relevant constraints for the PV module is to be certified low carbon footprint. To have such certificate is not enough though, but only issued by a French institution is acceptable. The CO2 assessment is mandatory for installations between 500KW-25MW. Before and after, it is not mandatory.
- In France, most of the installations require insurence, which ends up with another certificate as a mandatory: ETN. ETN certificate shows the modules are compatible with mounting systems.
- In rooftop installations most demanded panels are full black mono half cells, because of beautiful appearance and high efficiency.
If when I started business development activities in France I knew these little things, it would have been much easier for me, so I decided to share my findings with you.
If some of you want to have more detailed information about French market, feel free to PM me!
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