Engie, Neoen companion on 1GW French mega-solar

• Horizeo project will certainly additionally include battery storage as well as provide a green hydrogen manufacturing plant

Engie and Neoen are interacting to develop the 1GW Horizeo solar farm in France, which will certainly additionally include battery storage space and supply an environment-friendly hydrogen manufacturing unit and also an information centre.

Horizeo, which will be located on 1000 hectares at Saucats in the Gironde area of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, will certainly produce power with no aids, the companions claimed.

They included that the project intends to show that solar power is mature, reliable and also completely affordable to make sure the straight supply of electrical power to industrial firms.

Engie replacement president accountable of renewables Gwenaelle Avice-Huet stated: "The Horizeo project is extraordinary and ingenious in its ability to generate renewable resource as well as it goes much further by combining, on a solitary site, modern technologies of the future.

" It is also an enthusiastic project in its economic model, in which the energy produced will be valued via contracts for the sale of electrical energy by mutual agreement with companies, outside the tender procedures of the State and connected gives.

" This is a real break with the present financial version of renewable energies in France.

" We are likewise dedicated to accomplishing an excellent project in regards to ecological and also social strategy.

" The upcoming public argument will allow us, specifically, to enrich and feed all the elements of the project."

Neoen deputy president Paul-Francois Croisille claimed: "Horizeo is a large project which means to demonstrate that it is possible to increase the power transition in France by directly offering competitive renewable resource to business.

" This project is made as a true low-carbon power platform incorporating fully grown solar energy with enthusiastic technical technologies, such as electrical energy storage batteries.

" Our top priority is to integrate this project into the truths of the territory from an environmental, societal as well as financial viewpoint.

" In keeping with the extraordinary scale of the project, the general public argument will certainly permit all neighborhood actors and also the general public to be included as extensively as possible to develop all its capacity for the benefit of the territory."