Carbon, a French PV module maker, says its new €1.7 billion ($1.8 billion) manufacturing facility will initially produce TOPCon merchandise.
From pv journal France
French photo voltaic module producer Carbon has revealed it plans to start out pilot manufacturing at its vertically built-in TOPCon and IBC photo voltaic module manufacturing facility in Fos-sur-Mer, in southern France’s Bouches-du-Rhône division, in fall 2025.
The manufacturing facility will use a 500 MW pilot manufacturing line for TOPCon panels. The corporate stated it’s going to initially produce the modules with cells sourced in Europe or exterior Europe.
“The choice of our suppliers might be finalized throughout 2025 and can enable us to promote TOPCon Premium modules assembly the necessities outlined by the French Ministry of the Economic system,” Etienne Roche, answerable for technique, communication, public relations and public affairs at Carbon, informed pv journal France. “These necessities fee photovoltaic modules from A to E primarily based on the variety of manufacturing phases carried out in Europe.”
The pilot unit will even be designed to construct the manufacturing facility’s whole ecosystem, together with the institution of long-term partnerships with uncooked materials sources and tools suppliers, in addition to with R&D institutes.
Roche stated that the manufacturing facility will occupy a floor of round 5,000 m2 in Fos-sur-Mer, in southern France’s Bouches-du-Rhône division. It’s deliberate to have an annual ingot and cell manufacturing capability of 5 GW and a module capability of three.5 GW.
The deliberate complete funding ought to quantity to round €1.7 billion. Round 50% of the venture might be financed by debt, round 25% by nationwide and European subsidies, and eventually the rest by fairness.
“The at present very low costs should not sustainable over time, neither for European gamers, nor even for Chinese language Tier 1s,” stated Roche, noting that Carbon’s new manufacturing facility ought to be capable to ship comparatively low costs for its merchandise.
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