Wattway - first solar highway

Normandy, France

This article is about the first solar highway that was inaugurated in France in 2016. It was built in a small village in Normandy, they built a 1000km solar panel road which cost was about €5 million and it was financed by the state.
They are going to test the road for two years to see how the panels works, how much energy do they get, and how it behaves with the cars passing in the top of it.
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The panels were made with silicon, which is a primate component of photo voltaic cells, they are going to provide approximately 280 megawatts per hour in a year. It has a characteristic that can resist to all types of climates. And it can be placed in a normal highway but the highway cannot have any holes.
The article also says that there are other countries in Europe that are doing the same project as France did. 2 of these countries are the Netherlands and UK. In Netherlands they are doing a solar path for bikes since 2014.

I think this highway is fantastic. It is so modern and so ecologic in a way. And at the same time, it takes solar energy in order to convert it to the energy that we use!

I really really like when the countries around the world do these types of things, when they implement good ideas to capture energy from the sun because it is in an ecologic way and they are not damaging the environment. And it when they implement these ideas it means that they are worried about the climate changes, and they are promoting ways to create energy that will help them and at the same time will help the environment.

For me this is an innovative and good way to get energy from our main source: the sun, because is the only and the biggest star in our solar system. And I consider that it is not a difficult way to get something from the environment without hurting it, which nowadays is very difficult to achieve.

Article

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/world-s-first-solar-highway-opens-in-france-a7491046.html