In Depth: Everything’s sunny in the growing Total PV family

In the days after French oil and gas giant Total bought 60% of California PV group SunPower, asking about the future integration of the companies tended to draw frosty reactions or blank stares.

Three months after the landmark $1.37bn deal closed, however, relations within Total’s swelling stable of PV companies appear infinitely more cordial.

At this month’s European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, workers from SunPower and Tenesol — the 100% Total-owned French module maker — shared jokes and coffee at each other’s stands.

“I have to tell you, I’m shockingly surprised how well it’s going,” Howard Wenger, president of SunPower’s global utility and power plants (UPP) division, tells Recharge.

“You never know how an acquisition like…

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