To enable the country's largest garage solar in France

Solar photovoltaic (pv) net news: France renewable energy developers Neoen cole bath (in France Corbas) A 16 installed on a parking lot. 3 mw photovoltaic array. The facility covers an area of 12. 5 hectares, with 4600 industrial park, is the biggest in France a parking lot projects.

JulietteMoutarlier Neoen company project manager, said the French solar carport penetration and scale is constantly expanding. “ They have been adopted by many logistics center and a parking lot operators and win more environmentally friendly image for the operators, the local energy production, and new sources of revenue. ”

Corbas project cost 19. 1 million euros, construction takes only 5 months. The facility will be sold to the grid 19 each year. 5 gigawatts of electricity, but the French government for its feed-in tariff to zero. 102 euros per kilowatt-hour.

Neoen, managing director of Xavier Barbaro said Corbas carport power generation cost of photovoltaic power generation cost than the ground facilities around 50% higher, but the gap in the very great degree be offset through power transmission cost savings. Carport, using solar energy power generation cost is 80 - 90 euros/mw, and the ground about 50 - array of power generation cost 60 euros/mw, but the former saved 30 euros/mw of interconnection costs.

solar carport another major advantage is that they will not change the facilities in land use. And this is very important in France, because the French regulators and the public for photovoltaic (pv) how to integrate into the natural landscape is very picky. In some rural areas, for example, the ground solar facilities has been met with opposition. But so far, haven't heard anyone in their parking lot to install solar panels for blame or complain.