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24 Oct, 12 tweets, 6 min read
Solar farm

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No hailstorm please! Image
Les Mées solar farm, in the rolling hills of La Colle des Mées plateau, in southern France. Covering an area of 200 ha with 112,000 solar modules. Operated by Siemens Energy, generates 100MW, enough to power 12,000 typical French households.

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Some details of the solar farm at

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Location of the solar farm in Southern France Image
Apparently, it was built “with minimum impact on the land with no concrete foundation so that the land can still be grazed and the grass, continue to grow. There are nearly 113,000 panels which produce enough electricity for 12,000 French homes”

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Most efficient & productive ‘solar’ farm! Image
Darn!
This just in: Int Energy Agency says solar is now the cheapest form of electricity for utility companies to build. Thanks to risk-reducing financial policies around the world, it applies to locations with most favorable policies & access to financing

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The ugly solar farm is in China, not France - Thanks to @SekWisniewski! Ruicheng photovoltaic in Shanxi province, has two stages with 500 MW and 520 MW, costing 4.2 billion Chinese Yuan, covers an area of 14 sq KM

kippzonen.com/News/962/Insid…
“1.28 billion USD, the government of Ruicheng will build 1,000 MW of solar panels over 2 construction phases. This means that Ruicheng will boost Shanxi’s solar capacity by more than a third, from the province’s total solar capacity of 2968.3 MW”

datadrivenlab.org/china/ruicheng… Image
More details on this solar farm in China, not France as I thought earlier kippzonen.com/News/962/Insid… Image

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