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Ambitious Solar Plans in France

Posted by Robert Rapier on January 11, 2009 - 10:42am
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: france, solar pv, solar thermal [list all tags]

The following guest post was written by Tom Standing, a "semi-retired, part-time civil engineer for the City of San Francisco." In Arizona Solar Power Project Calculations, published a few days ago, Tom took a look at a 280 MW solar thermal plant in Arizona. In this post, Tom examines France's ambitious solar plans.

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