French Experts Recommend Launch of National Solar Market

In order to allow a progressive and ambitious increase of the French market, the professionals at the symposium recommended the following:

• Revise France's Pluriannual Investments Plan (PPI)
  
• Revise the objectives of the PPI to such a level to allow the development of a national photovoltaic industry: 1,100 megawatts (MW) in 2012 and 7,000 MW in 2020

The group also recommended increasing the level of the country's feed-in tariffs. For building integrated systems they recommended that the current structure and level of €0.57 (US $0.90)/kilowatt-hour (kWh)  be maintained. For non-integrated systems on buildings they recommended introducing a tariff of €0.45 (US $0.71)/kWh  and for ground-based systems the basic tariff would be adjusted to €0.38 (US $0.60)/kWh to allow for development of PV plants of up to 2,000 MW.