Road experiment of solar panel was unsuccessful

To such a disappointing conclusion reached by experts after summing up the results of the experiment in France after several years of field trials.

This experiment was launched in December 2016, when the northern part of France, and it is not in the sunniest Normandy experimental section constructed road length of 1 km, where used as a coating photovoltaic panel.

According to estimates the road segment should produce about 150 thousand. kWh of electricity per year. In this case, it was planned that way so the resulting energy will go to the street lighting in the nearby town of Turvure.

Spent on the road was about 5.2 million euros of budget funds and the opening of the road was covered by the most pathetic and said that this is the future of all roads.

But as it happens quite often, the reality was somewhat different than pictured on paper. And all because engineers do not take into account some important details:

1. This road except passenger cars as moving trucks and agricultural machinery, and the panels were commonplace not designed for this load. As a result, in May 2018 we were forced to simply delete the 90 meters of the road.

2. So it turned out that autumn foliage safely sheltered from sun panels and remove them naturally no one was in a hurry, which further reduced the production of electricity.

3. Well, the most obvious blunder was the fact that solar panels have been installed in an area where sunny days a year, only 44 out of 365.

As a result, in the first year of the road gave out only 50% of the installed capacity, and the beginning of 2019 to develop and does fell to 38 thousand. kW. But it was assumed that this project will bring not less than 10,500 euros per year, but it turned out that the first year the authorities have earned 4550 euros, 2018 already 3100 and the first half of 2019 only in 1450 Euro.

As a result, Wattway company that engaged in the development and implementation of this project, has recognized its failure and will no longer support it and especially to develop.

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