A total of 47,000 photovoltaic solar panels have been floated on the surface of a lake in Vaucluse in southern France. He told Le Parisien: "When we launched this project, it was a world first to install photovoltaic panels on water. Now up and running, the panels supply 100 percent of the energy needs of 4,733 households - nearly 10,000 people. A spokesman for the town added: "Floating solar energy does not leave marks in the soil in the long term, it does not generate water pollution. The plant, at Piolenc, if the first floating plant in France and the most powerful in Europe.

Source: The Local October 18, 2019 10:07 UTC