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French Senate Passes Law Requiring Solar Panels in All Large Parking Lots

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The French Senate approved new legislation this week, requiring all parking lots with spaces for over 80 vehicles to be covered by solar panels.
The proposed law, part of a larger renewable energy package, still needs to go through the Assemblée Nationale upper house.
Starting in July 2023, new and existing parking lots with between 80 to 400 spaces will have five years to comply with the new law. Parking lots with over 400 spaces have only three years. At least half of the lot's surface area is required to be covered in solar panels.
The government believes these additional solar panels could generate up to 11 gigawatts — equivalent to 10 nuclear reactors — which could power millions of homes. The administration is particularly targeting parking lots around commercial centers and train stations, which receive a lot of traffic.
Senator Agnès Pannier-Runacher during the Senate debate said:
“We must not delay the implementation of the decarbonization of our economy.”

More green plans
The new law is part of President Emmanuel Macron’s large-scale plans to invest in renewables. The Macron administration aims to multiply the amount of solar energy produced in the country by 10% and double the power from land-based wind farms.

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We’re currently experiencing an ice storm here at Maybelot, but we’re still making power! Almost a whole watt!
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America’s big shift to green energy has a woolly mammoth problem
Transmission lines in the US need to be increased threefold, but faces pushback from fossil conservation and green groups

Oliver Milman
Mon 22 May 2023 12.00 BST

America’s renewable energy drive needs more than a million miles of new transition lines but emerging resistance includes opponents worried about building them in one of the country’s richest areas of ice-age fossils.

The Greenlink West project would build a 470-mile-long transmission line bringing clean electricity north of Las Vegas to Reno in Nevada, but it cuts through an area containing everything from woolly mammoth tusks to giant sloths to ancient camels.

The pushback has highlighted a major, and growing, challenge to Joe Biden’s attempts to expand clean energy in order to tackle the climate crisis – how to quickly build vast new networks of electricity transmission across America without falling afoul of local communities and green groups.

If the US is to eliminate planet-heating emissions by 2050 it will need to increase the capacity of its current 700,000 circuit-mile network of poles and wires by threefold, researchers have estimated, in order to electrify key components of everyday life and shift intermittent wind and solar energy to areas where the sun isn’t shining or wind isn’t blowing.

The nascent stages of this gargantuan effort, the scale of which hasn’t been seen since the US built out its highway system in the 1950s, is already facing opposition from various conservation groups, locals and fossil fuel interests from New England to the Arizona desert.

“Transmission is contentious because it’s long, it’s linear, so it affects a lot of people,” said Jessica Wilkinson, North America renewable energy team lead at the Nature Conservancy. “We are seeing local concerns being raised and they are growing as these projects increase in size. It’s all new to people.”



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Solar panels over vegetation is more efficient at generating electricity as the vegetation transpiration keeps the air temperature lower. :)
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