Voltalia wins two PV projects in French solar tender

Voltalia has announced that two solar projects with a total capacity of 8 MW have been selected by the French ministry for Ecological and Social Transition under the “CRE IV” national call for tenders.

After winning projects during the previous CRE I , CRE II and CRE III national call for tenders, Voltalia confirms its competitiveness on the French market. The two winning solar projects, Tresques (3 MW) and Parroc (5 MW), are located in Occitanie and Nouvelle Aquitaine, two French regions where competition for the tender was fierce due to their good solar resources.

The Tresques (Gard) and Parroc (Haute-Vienne) solar power plants will benefit from a 20-year contract for difference starting from the commissioning of the plants, expected at the latest in July 2019. As in previous calls for tenders, Voltalia paid particular care to the selection of the construction sites: the Tresques project will be built on a former industrial site, on the heap of a building-material factory. The group also included for the first time the possibility to resort to participative funding.

These two solar power plants will cover the electricity consumption of nearly 4,000 French households, without greenhouse gas emissions.