France cuts ribbon on world’s first solar road
Dec 23, 2016 11:24 CET
December 23 – France’s Ecology Minister Segolene Royal on Thursday officially inaugurated a one-kilometre pilot solar road project in Tourouvre, the Orne department, in north-western France.
Construction started in October and the EUR-5-million (USD 5.22m) investment was financed by the Ministry.
In total, 2,800 square metres (30,139 sq feet) of Wattway solar road tiles were laid down. Their annual electricity generation is estimated at 280,000 kWh (roughly 800 kWh per day) or the equivalent to providing public lighting for a small town with 5,000 residents.
1ère mondiale : j’inaugure demain à 11h le prototype de route solaire dans l’Orne. L’usine sur place compte 70 salariés #TransportPropre pic.twitter.com/6gWFm9IvTI
— Ségolène Royal (@RoyalSegolene) December 21, 2016
According to a presentation on French TV channel TF1, the revolutionary technology could provide power to light up electronic road signs, power traffic lights or even power the batteries of electric cars as they move on the road. If stored, the produced energy could power road lights at night and melt snowfall during winter.
(EUR 1 = USD 1.043)
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