first cycle route in France to test solar panels

Photovoltaic shade structures covering part of the ViaRhôna in the town of Caderousse: a long-term reflection – including three years of studies – which is finally coming to fruition.

Installed over 900 meters, the six planned structures will be put into service next September. The specificity? This is a first in France.

“The installation is based on an innovative high-voltage direct current electrical architecture, which foreshadows a real technological leap to support the growth of linear photovoltaics along roads, cycle routes, banks or railway lines over several tens of kilometers » specifies the CNR (Compagnie nationale du Rhône).

These shade houses, work on which began this month and…