EDF Energies Nouvelles is planning to build solar plants in France totalling 30GW over the 2020 to 2035 period.
The EDF Solar Power Plan was announced today by EDF Group chairman and chief executive Jean-Bernard Lévy.
The company said it will “leverage all its resources in order to sustain a vigorous rate of expansion”.
It will identify a range of potential sites, including areas close to nuclear power plants, reconverting industrial wasteland and floating plants on hydroelectric sites.
EDF will use its own internal resources to develop the projects, as well as looking to attract industrial and financial partners.
Lévy said: “The Solar Power Plan is of an unparalleled scale and marks a real turning point in EDF’s development of solar power capacity.
“It is a concrete illustration of the goals outlined in the group’s CAP 2030 strategy, which was initiated in 2015 and aim to double the group’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030.”
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