Please insert the email address used for your registration:Your new password has been emailed to you.Jura companies active in the installation of solar panels are unanimous: their deadlines for honoring their contracts have continued to lengthen in recent months, due in particular to shortages of raw materials and increased demand.(Photo: ldd)Patience and length of time: these are the watchwords, if one undertakes to install solar panels at home.Faced with rising energy prices and the risk of shortages announced by the Confederation, more and more Swiss are deciding to switch to photovoltaics;the trend is identical in the Jura.“It's madness,” says Philippe Cattin, of Swiss Solartech."I have 15 times more requests than a few months ago, and I have to tell my clients that I can only complete their projects in 8 to 12 months."Demand is very high, and the field is currently experiencing a shortage of raw materials (particularly polysilicon, a major component of solar panels)... which complicates the work of companies active in the installation of photovoltaic panels: "If I order a container of panels, the delivery time is not announced to me.So we have no visibility over the coming months,” explains Sébastien Faivre, director of Faivre Energie in Delémont.“On standard equipment, I would say that we have a lead time of at least 6 months.But if you tell me that you want an autonomous house, and to be able to cut yourself off from the network if there are supply problems, I can't promise you anything before 2024,” he adds.An unprecedented situation, which seems to affect the entire sector.“I have work for a year”At Cerneux-Veusil, Jean Oppliger of Jura Energie faces the same difficulties.“Before, I had the choice between 6 models of solar panels.Today, the options are limited, only two or three panels,” he says.If the shortages of raw materials are in question, the regular closings of factories also disrupt production, in Asia in particular.The pandemic had already slowed down the system, and the war in Ukraine - and its consequences - arrived.The shortage of energy forces certain factories to remain shut down... this same shortage of energy, which frightens the owners and motivates them to switch to photovoltaics.As a result, in Delémont, the Faivre Energie company saw its demand multiplied by six: “We went from 3-4 quotes per day to around twenty,” admits Sébastien Faivre.At Jura Energie, the telephone rings several times a day and Jean Oppliger allows himself to refuse certain projects: "If the roof is too complicated, for example, I can say that I will not do it, because I currently have work for one year ".In Rocourt, at Koutec, same story: there is an explosion in demand, but supply problems with suppliers, whether Asian or European.Rising demand and prices"The material arrives... when it arrives", confide the directors of several companies, resigned and forced to deal with a global problem.And who says “scarcity” of raw materials says rising prices.Solar panels are currently more expensive from distributors, according to most Jura entrepreneurs.A trend that does not seem ready to reverse./ctoRegion • Updated on 2022.07.22 - 12:00Region • Updated on 2022.07.22 - 09:11Region • Updated on 2022.07.22 - 08:34Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 17:18Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 15:51Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 17:18Region • Updated on 2022.07.22 - 08:34Region • Updated on 2022.07.22 - 09:11Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 15:23Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 15:51Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 17:18Region • Updated on 2022.07.22 - 08:34Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 10:47Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 15:23Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 15:51Region • Updated on 2022.07.21 - 17:21To find out all about the news, subscribe to our newsletter and receive all the day's news every evening from 4:30 p.m.BNJ FM SA - RFJ Program 20, rue du 23-Juin - CH-2800 Delémont Tel: +41 (0)32 421 70 40 - Fax: +41 (0)32 421 70 27 - Contact - Site mapCopyright © 1999-2022 BNJ FM SA Powered by Artionet - Generated with IceCube2.Net