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World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 28 2016, @07:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the checking-the-cost-benefit-numbers dept.

mrpg writes:

France has opened what it claims to be the world's first solar panel road in a Normandy village.

A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of electricity-generating panels, was inaugurated on Thursday by the ecology minister, Ségolène Royal.

It cost €5m (£4.2m) to construct and will be used by about 2,000 motorists a day during a two-year test period to establish if it can generate enough energy to power street lighting in the village of 3,400 residents.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday December 28 2016, @09:43PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Wednesday December 28 2016, @09:43PM (#446863) Journal

    How much do they save by not needing to run miles of copper to all those light poles, I wonder.

    1) How much money do they save by having just a single wire pair running along the street instead of a web of wire connecting all the individual road panels?

    2) How much copper wire does it really take to bridge the one foot gap between the light and the solar panel on top of it?
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mdOQFs5eTr8/TZrIvrpkekI/AAAAAAAAARY/PO9RMPBVppk/s1600/solar-powered-light.jpg [blogspot.com]

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