| Title | World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village | |
| Date | Wednesday December 28 2016, @07:32AM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the checking-the-cost-benefit-numbers dept. | ||
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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