Reden has halted solar module production at its Roquefort-sur-Soulzon facility, citing mounting cost pressures and competition from Asian manufacturers. The closure marks another setback for French solar manufacturing, leaving Voltec as the country’s only remaining PV panel producer.
French PV project developer and solar module manufacturer Reden has announced the closure of its solar panel assembly facility in Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, located in the Aveyron department of the Occitanie region in southern France.
Commissioned in December 2024, the 200 MW factory was designed to enable the energy producer to control parts of the photovoltaic value chain. However, less than three years later—and after nearly €4.5 million in production line upgrades—the outlook has turned bleak following the announcement late last week that operations would be discontinued.
“It was no longer financially sustainable,” Florence Burhin, the group’s communications manager, told pv magazine France.
Faced with intense competition from Asian manufacturers and the absence of a meaningful European industrial preference in procurement decisions, the assembly plant quickly became loss-making. With its competitiveness eroded and a structural deficit deemed impossible to overcome, Reden opted to limit its losses before the situation could threaten the continuity and long-term viability of its other activities, particularly in agrivoltaics.
