Articles written by Catherine Rollet

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Technology & Products
French solar equipment supplier touts fully automated production line Startup Solean claims that its new fully automated production equipment offers a highly flexible way to bring panel manufacturing back to Europe.
Catherine Rollet
May 08, 2020
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Applications & Installations
A disinfectant system powered by solar French PV company Solea has developed a system which can produce 8-16 liters of solar-powered disinfectant solution per day.
Catherine Rollet
May 06, 2020
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Applications & Installations
La Réunion stadium hosts 1.25 MW/1.33 MWh of solar-plus-storage The project was selected in a tender for storage deployment in non mainland grid interconnected areas that was finalized by France’s Energy Regulatory Commission in 2016.
Catherine Rollet
Apr 20, 2020
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Applications & Installations
Would solar decarbonize French energy – or just replace nuclear? A thinktank has studied whether increased solar energy would contribute significantly to reducing the carbon footprint of the French and European electricity systems in an attempt to respond to a common French refrain the nation needs no further decarbonization of energy because it has nuclear power.
Catherine Rollet
Apr 16, 2020
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Applications & Installations
A good year for solar: Agrivoltaics in vineyards French agricultural PV specialist Sun’Agri has revealed the results of tests run on a solar plant integrated with viticulture. During heat waves, the company said, vines shaded by solar panels continued to grow and needed less water.
Catherine Rollet
Mar 31, 2020
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Applications & Installations
French-German alliance for vertical PV French energy giant Total and German start-up Next2Sun have joined forces to develop vertical PV solutions in the French market. The oil group’s unit Total Quadran plans to use the solution in agrivoltaic projects.
Catherine Rollet
Mar 30, 2020
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Applications & Installations
Germany and France modify solar tenders because of Covid-19 The governments of both countries are answering solar industry requests by adjusting tender schemes and considering measures to avoid financial penalties and the loss of incentives due to missed deadlines.
Catherine Rollet, Sandra Enkhardt
Mar 25, 2020
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Applications & Installations
How Covid-19 is affecting the French solar sector Franc Raffalli, president of the Photovoltaic Professions Group of the French Building Federation spoke to pv magazine about the impact of the coronavirus on the French PV industry.
Catherine Rollet
Mar 24, 2020
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Research & Development
An organic solar cell with 25% efficiency The ‘best conversion performance in the world in a dark room’ is how the developers of a new organic PV device have described it. Such cells could be used as a wireless source of energy for internet of things applications or in gadgets such as temperature-humidity and motion sensors.
Catherine Rollet
Mar 24, 2020
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