France's Agri-PV Rules: What Project Developers Need to Know

Nine in ten Agri-PV projects in the French pipeline will never be built. The two reasons developers name are grid connection and agronomics, and neither one is in the décret. The regulation is the settled part now, upheld by the Conseil d'État in March 2026, so this guide covers what actually decides whether a compliant project gets built, and how to screen for it before a site costs you anything.

What's inside

• Why distance to the nearest line is the wrong variable, where France publishes the number that really decides your connection, and the capacity transfer most developers never ask for
• How RPG's declared crop becomes a go or no-go filter across a whole department, before you speak to a single landowner
• Why the department decides more than the national décret does, and what moves a binding CDPENAF opinion once you're already compliant
• Why the farmland tender ceiling just doubled to 500 MWc, and why ranking now matters as much as qualifying
• How Glint Solar's Agri-PV features help you build a compliant design that clears the coverage cap and wins the authority's sign-off on the farming underneath