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					</table><p>France’s installed solar capacity reached 33 GW as of March 31, 2026, including 32.1 GW in mainland France, according to the Statistical Data and Studies Department (<a href="https://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/english-contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SDES</a>).</p>
<p>During the first quarter (Q1) of 2026, 1.5 GW of new solar capacity was connected to the grid, comparable to the 1.57 GW added during the same period in 2025.</p>
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<p>The total connected solar fleet showed flat growth, with 1,379,173 installations totaling 32,996 MW, compared with 1,367,569 installations and 32,318 MW at the end of December 2025. SDES data showed that 30,082 new solar installations were connected in Q1, down from 59,357 in Q1 2025.</p>
<p>Larger systems continued to account for a substantial share of capacity additions. Installations above 500 kW accounted for 30% of newly connected capacity but only 0.3% of new connections.</p>
<p>Smaller systems below 9 kW accounted for 74% of all new installations but contributed 7% of newly added capacity.</p>
<p>Gross solar electricity generation in metropolitan France reached 6.6 TWh in Q1, up 13% from 5.9 TWh in the same period in 2025.</p>
<p>Excluding self-consumption, solar generation totaled 6.2 TWh and accounted for 4.6% of electricity consumption in metropolitan France during the quarter, up 0.7%in Q1 2025.</p>
<p>By the end of Q1, 62% of solar installations generated electricity that was fully or partially self-consumed, increasing 1.5% from Q4 2025.</p>
<p>These installations represented 19% of installed solar capacity, up 0.5% from the previous quarter. Producers self-consumed 481 GWh of solar electricity, equivalent to 7% of gross solar generation.</p>
<p>Installations operating under full self-consumption generated 247 GWh, accounting for 51% of all self-consumed solar electricity. Fully self-consuming systems represented 14% of installations that self-consumed some or all of their output and 9% of the total metropolitan solar fleet.</p>
<p>The capacity of projects awaiting grid connection declined 2% from the end of 2025 to 36.1 GW. Of this total, 8.4 GW had secured signed grid connection agreements.</p>
<p>In December last year, France had <a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/frances-solar-installations-reach-30-gw-as-of-9m-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">installed</a> 29.7 GW of solar capacity, with over 1.3 million installations as of September 30, 2025.</p>
<p>In the same month, France’s Ministry of Energy Transition <a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/france-awards-507-mw-of-solar-projects-in-fourth-renewables-auction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded</a> a combined capacity of 507.7 MW across 36 solar projects under the fourth round of its technology-neutral renewables tender.</p>


France’s Solar Capacity Hits 33 GW With 1.5 GW Added in Q1 2026


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					</table><p>France has installed 29.7 GW of solar capacity from over 1.3 million installations as of September 30, 2025, according to the country’s Statistical Data and Studies Department (<a href="https://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/english-contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SDES</a>). This was a 10.5% year-over-year (YoY) growth compared to 26.8 GW from nearly 1.2 million installations.</p>
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<p>Approximately one-third of the newly-connected capacity in 2025 comprised solar installations larger than 500 kW. This represents 0.2% of the total new connections. Installations under 9 kW accounted for 86% of new installations and 13% of new capacity.</p>
<p>Project pipeline capacity increased by 15% since the final quarter of 2024, reaching 36.9 GW. Of this capacity, 8.4 GW had signed connection agreements.</p>
<p>These volumes represent connection requests submitted to network operators and do not necessarily correspond to the volumes that will be put into service.</p>
<p>An additional 4.5 GW of capacity from 155,985 installations was connected to the country’s grid in the first nine months (9M) of 2025, increasing 21.6% compared to 3.7 GW from 199,315 installations in the same period in the preceding year.</p>
<p>Solar projects generated 28.6 TWh during 9M 2025, rising 35% YoY from 21.2 TWh.</p>
<p>The Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions made up 46% of the newly connected capacity in the third quarter (Q3) of 2025. These regions already represent 51% of France’s total capacity.</p>
<p>In Q3, 60% of solar installations, representing 16% of the installed capacity, generated energy that was either partially or fully self-consumed. These installations were 1.9 % points higher than in Q2 2025, and the installed capacity exceeded that in the previous quarter by 0.8 % points.</p>
<p>Solar energy totaling 1,173 GWh was self-consumed by producers in Q3, accounting for 10% of the electricity produced during this quarter. Installations completely consuming their generated energy produced 255 GWh, or 22% of the total self-consumed electricity. These installations represented 13% of the metropolitan self-consumption capacity and 8% of the total metropolitan capacity.</p>
<p>Recently, France’s Ministry of Energy Transition <a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/france-awards-507-mw-of-solar-projects-in-fourth-renewables-auction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded</a> a combined capacity of 507.7 MW across 36 solar projects under the fourth round of its technology-neutral renewables tender. The tender was floated for a total capacity of 500 MW.</p>
<p>A majority of European solar markets <a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/solar-ppa-prices-stagnate-in-north-america-drop-5-in-europe-levelten/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experienced</a> declining pricing trends for solar power purchase agreements. In Q2 2025, P25 solar prices, which are the 25<sup>th</sup> percentile of offered prices in power purchase agreements, reduced by over 5% in Europe, according to LevelTen Energy’s Market-Averaged Continental Index report.</p>


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