{"id":470,"date":"2015-12-18T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/?page_id=470"},"modified":"2016-05-04T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:50:26","slug":"frances-300-mw-cestas-solar-plant-inaugurated","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/archive\/frances-300-mw-cestas-solar-plant-inaugurated\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s 300 MW Cestas solar plant inaugurated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-471 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Cestas_300_MW__a2c2ac267d.jpg\" alt=\"Cestas_300_MW__a2c2ac267d\" width=\"200\" height=\"93\" \/><strong>Europe&#8217;s largest solar PV installation has been officially inaugurated this week. Located across 250 hectares near Bordeaux, Cestas will produce solar energy cheaper than new nuclear plants.It was a long time in the making, but this week Europe\u2019s largest solar PV plant was finally brought online.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cestas solar farm, which is 300 MW and covers a 250-hectare site near to the French city of Bordeaux, was connected to the grid earlier this month and has already begun producing solar power at a price cheaper than that offered by new nuclear plants.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Neoen for a cost of \u20ac360 million ($382 million), Cestas will see its solar energy for a price of \u20ac105\/MWh ($111\/MWh) for 20 years, which is on a par with wind power and cheaper than the cost of new nuclear energy, confirmed Neoen chief executive, Xavier Barbaro.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s older nuclear plants, built in the 1970s and \u201880s, deliver nuclear energy for around \u20ac55\/MWh, but newer nuclear plants \u2013 such as the controversial Hinkley Point development in the U.K., which is being built by French utility EDF \u2013 are set to deliver energy for a government-guaranteed price of around \u20ac130\/MWh.<\/p>\n<p>Barbaro told reporters at the plant\u2019s inauguration that its east-west orientation (solar farms at this latitude are usually oriented with a southern azimuth) means it can produce three-to-four times more power for the same surface area. This also means early morning and late-afternoon production is higher, mirroring more closely typical demand patterns from the French grid.<\/p>\n<p>The plant is comprised of 25, 12 MW sub-plants and was delivered to the grid via a consortium of largely France-based contributors, including French infrastructure company Eiffage and Schneider Electric.<\/p>\n<p>At 300 MW, it is easily the continent\u2019s largest single array, and will play its part in pushing France towards 1 GW of new solar PV installations this year, with the country on course to match that in 2016 and 2017, according to projections from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/news\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s largest solar PV installation has been officially inaugurated this week. Located across 250 hectares near Bordeaux, Cestas will produce solar energy cheaper than new nuclear plants.It was a long time in the making, but this week Europe\u2019s largest solar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/archive\/frances-300-mw-cestas-solar-plant-inaugurated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470\/revisions\/523"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}