Featured in O&M plays its hand – 02-2015

Fiddling while Rome burns

European R&D: Criticized for toiling away in labs while the PV industry lies gravely injured, Europe’s R&D sector hopes a series of pan-continental projects can help wrest control of solar’s global future. pv magazine visited the INES research center in France to see how the community is regrouping and collaborating as it prepares to survive Europe’s solar winter.
By
Ian Clover

Prime real estate does not get much more enviable than that enjoyed by the Institut National de L’energie Solaire (INES)in southeast France. A short, solar-cell-skim from the banks of Lake Bourget, the 22,000 square meter solar facility enjoys splendid views of the Jura Mountain range and easy access to the foothills of the French Alps, …

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