L R AS Published on Monday 26 June 2023 - n° 451 - Categories:Europe
Will we have a photovoltaic production volume of 30 GW in Europe in 2025?
PV Tech 's presentation (see elsewhere) is quite different from that of Plein Soleil , which is more complacent about this announcement: this publication reports that "members of the European Solar PV Industry Alliance (ESIA) predict that the industry is well on track
to build more than 30 GW of production capacity across the entire photovoltaic value chain, with more than 20 new industrial projects".
"The European Solar Photovoltaic Industry Alliance (ESIA) launched by the European Commission, whose secretariat is provided by EIT InnoEnergy and whose steering committee is made up of. SolarPower Europe and the European Solar Manufacturing Council, has revealed that Europe, with the right political support, can exceed the EU's target of 30 GW of PV generation capacity by 2025."
Plein Soleil, 22 June 2023
Editor's note To claim that 30 GW of photovoltaic production capacity (silicon, ingots, wafers, cells, panels) can be installed by 2025 neglects the time it takes to design, organise and then build. The timeframe is too short to achieve this, or the public will be fooled into believing what they are told.
Having political bodies carry out an industrial task also means using the wrong means: an industrialist masters industrial organisation. A politician manages (and still does) what is desirable for the public good and the prospects, but he does not master the concrete details of industrial life.
This new initiative gives the impression that we would like to see industrialisation, but that ideology dominates this Commission, which in any case has no concrete or practical aspects.
