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Why start-up Carbon is buying Photowatt from EDF 13/09/2024

  • - EDF acquired Photowatt in 2012, the company being the only French silicon ingot manufacturer at the time.
  • Today, Photowatt focuses on wafer production and panel assembly.
  • - EDF Renouvelables and start-up Carbon have concluded a draft agreement for the transfer of Photowatt with a firm takeover offer, providing for the retention of 170 jobs in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère.
  • - Announcement of a pilot unit named Carbon One with a production capacity of 500 MWp, scheduled for September 2025, with the aim of producing 1 million panels a year and providing 200 stable jobs.
  • - Gigafactory project for early 2027 located in Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhône), on around 60 hectares, with a planned capacity of 5 GW.
  • - Photowatt currently has a production capacity of 200 MWp.
  • - Development of the new TopCon (Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact) photovoltaic cell technology, requiring specific skills that Photowatt possesses, notably in wafer cutting and silicon ingot casting, which are invaluable for Carbon's ambition.

Carbon to create an R&D and training center in Istres 28/06/2024

  • Project location: Campus in Istres, Bouches-du-Rhône.
  • Total estimated investment: 33 million euros for the Carbon Lab.
  • Creation of 200 jobs directly linked to the Carbon Lab.
  • Production plant in Fos-sur-Mer:
  • - Estimated production capacity: 5 GWp.
  • - Total investment: 1.7 billion euros.
  • - Jobs associated with the production unit: 3,000.

Carbon Solar aims to master the entire photovoltaic module production value chain 28/06/2024

  • - Annual production capacity target: 5 GW
  • - Production start-up date: early 2026
  • - Preferred technology: TopCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact cells)
  • - Target efficiency: Around 24% for TopCon, comparable to 22% for PERC
  • - Proportion of production using IBC technology on TopCon: One-fifth
  • - Target carbon footprint for solar panels: Less than 350 kg per kW

Solar energy: a new plant with 3,000 employees in Fos-sur-Mer, Carbon's crazy bet 28/06/2024

  • - Creation of Carbon in March 2022 in Roche-la-Molière (Loire).
  • - Announcement of plans to build a gigafactory in Marseille-Fos by 2025, with over 3,000 employees.
  • - The solar panel market is currently 70% dominated by six Chinese players.
  • - Carbon forecasts an annual production volume of 5 GW of photovoltaic cells and 3.5 GW of modules at this site.
  • - Carbon's goal is to reach a total production capacity of 20 GW by 2030.
  • - Financing requirements are estimated at 1.5 billion euros for the first plant at Fos-sur-Mer and 4 billion euros to reach 20 GW by 2030.

Carbon, the French start-up dreaming of a photovoltaic gigafactory 02/08/2022

  • - Annual capacity of future Carbon plant: 20 GW (aiming to rank among the world's Top 10 manufacturers)
  • - Recyclability of solar panels according to Carbon: 80%.
  • - Competitor
    • In France, EDF is reportedly looking to get rid of Photowatt,
    • Systovi from Brittany and Voltec from Alsace remain tiny.
    • In Italy, Enel is talking about increasing its capacity from 200 MW to 3 GW by 2024 - which would make it Europe's leading plant in the meantime, Carbon
    • - European subsidy won by Rec Solar: around 100 million euros for a 4 GW plant in France.
  • - Investment required for Carbon: 1 billion euros for 5 GW in 2025 and 4 billion euros for 20 GW in 2030.
  • - Carbon's partnership: With the Aci industrial group.

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  • Créawatt
  • Reden Solar
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  • TSE Energy
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  • LONGi
  • Mylight Systems
  • MyLight150
  • We Recycle Solar
  • Photosol (Rubis groupe)
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  • Verlaine Groupe
  • Dualsun
  • Exasun
  • Energetica
  • Heckert Solar
  • Systovi
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  • See You Sun
  • AdiWatt Caillau
  • First Solar
  • Recom-Sillia
  • Energies de Loire
  • Solewa
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