18% of New Cars Were Plugin Vehicles in France in January

Credit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:48:58 +0000

Dacia Spring is #1! While the overall auto market fell off a cliff in January (-19% YoY), the French plugin passenger car market hit the accelerator, all thanks to pure electrics (BEVs) jumping 58%, to 10,217 registrations. Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) dropped 3% YoY, to 7,934 units,  allowing pure electrics to have 56% of plugin sales. […]

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GE Confirms Sale of Lucrative Nuclear Steam Turbine Segment to EDF 

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:32:35 +0000

GE has signed an exclusive agreement with EDF Group, an entity majority held by the French government, to sell the equipment segment and some services that make up Steam Power’s nuclear-serving steam turbine business—part of a portfolio that GE adopted during its 2015 merger with French equipment giant Alstom. The American technology conglomerate confirmed it signed […]

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Agriculture: the Agrivoltaic Approach – With Video

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:40:30 +0000

argivoltaics in agricultureAn emerging strategy known as agrivoltaics combines solar electricity generation with agricultural production in the same location and can contribute to achieving sustainable energy and food goals simultaneously.

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The Agrivoltaic Approach To Agriculture (Video)

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:39:30 +0000

argivoltaicsAn emerging strategy known as agrivoltaics combines solar electricity generation with agricultural production in the same location and can contribute to achieving sustainable energy and food goals simultaneously.

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January Sees France’s Plugin EVs Grow Share By 50%

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

France, Europe’s second largest auto market, saw January plugin electric vehicle share at 17.6%, up from 11.6% year-on-year.  Full electrics alone doubled their share of the market to almost 10%. Overall auto market volume was down to 102,899 units, some 33% down from pre-pandemic seasonal norms. The Dacia Spring was the best selling plugin. January’s […]

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France Announces Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant Closure

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:26:46 +0000

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France, which has long relied on reactors to supply the bulk of the country’s electricity, on Feb. 19 announced the imminent closure of the Fessenheim nuclear plant, located on the country’s border with Germany. One of the plant’s two 920-MW pressurized water reactors will shut down within days, with the second taken offline by the […]

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