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Where to build solar in France
How Gridscouter ranks French substations for utility-scale solar, from Occitanie to Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
The market
France has over 3,000 mapped solar plants and ambitious targets for new capacity. Ground-mounted parks are steered towards low-value land such as old quarries and brownfields.
How Gridscouter ranks solar sites
Substations are scored on sunshine, flat or south-facing land, grid voltage and how much solar is already connected. Each site gets a suggested size in MWp.
Where to look
The south (Occitanie, Provence, Nouvelle-Aquitaine) has the best sunshine; check regional connection capacity before securing land.
Note
Gridscouter scores are estimates from open map data, not grid operator capacity figures. Confirm connection capacity with the grid operator.