Faced with climate change and growing pressure on water resources, photovoltaic greenhouses and crop shading systems are emerging as a practical solution to preserve soil
Interview with Alain Legal, mayor of Faux since 2008, community of 610 inhabitants, local council community for the southern Périgord region, in Dordogne. After having visited a solar power plant in 2012 in the Gers region, the elected officials of Faux decided to install a photovoltaic power plant on a
Interview with Pascal Legendre, president of the Mézinais local council community in the Lot et Garonne region since 2014. At the start of the project, the community purchased a former industrial waste site to develop an economic project and photovoltaic energy was the opportunity they wanted to take advantage of.
Interview with Daniel Boyer, mayor of Aigaliers since 2001, village of 500 inhabitants near Uzès in the Gard region. Inaugurated at the end of May, 2016, this next generation ground-mounted solar power plant was born of the shared engagement, starting in 2009, of Daniel Boyer, his municipal council, and the
Interview with Alain Delsol, mayor of Lavernose-Lacasse, town of 3,000 inhabitants along the Garonne River, south of Toulouse. For his third term, Alain Delsol undertook, along with his municipal council, a project to develop former gravel quarries that had been exploited for thirty years. Property of the town, these spaces
Interview with Marie-Aline Edo, mayor from 2004 to 2020 of La-Tour-Sur-Orb, a town of 1,500 inhabitants in the western part of the Hérault region, near Bédarieux. Marie-Aline Edo, along with her town council, responded in favor of a proposal to create a renewable energy production site in her community: “Even
Accounts closed on April 30th, 2018 show a total turnover of 104M€, including the design, construction, maintenance, and the sale of electricity. This represents a growth rate of 16% in relation to previous activity, reinforced by a significant increase in results. The total GOS of the group rose to 25M€,
Sococim Industries (Vicat group) entrusts Urbasolar with the construction of a 7 MWp solar power plant destined to supply power to its Rufisque cement works in Senegal. This investment, an industrial first in Africa, is part of the Vicat group’s global carbon footprint reduction program in its factories. Senegal has
An Urbasolar-CEA partnership to advance research. With a strategy based on innovation, Urbasolar has allied itself with the skills of CEA-Tech to find and optimize analysis tools. Researchers thus profit from a site for full-scale testing. “Make our plant great again”, was Emmanuel Macron’s promise that they adopted as their
Urbasolar wins the Grand Prize for Fastest-Growing Company! For the fifth edition of the Grand Prize for Fastest-Growing Companies, more than three hundred participants gathered at the Pavillon d’Armenonville to discover the 2018 leaders in growth who are the pride of France. Leaders League, in collaboration with the French Ministry
Interview with Roger Meï, mayor of Gardanne from 1977 to 2020, a town of 20,000 inhabitants and the historic capital of the mining basin of Provence. “I am a mayor who has had a real ecological approach for 40 years. We lived through the closing of the coal mines and
The French photovoltaic specialist is the first company to be certified AQPV General Contractor by Certisolis. AQPV certification is for companies in the photovoltaic industry and aims to be an indisputable indicator for both private and public projectowners who wish to work with the best operators having a mastery of
Urbasolar signs a financial agreement with the EBRD for the first ground-mounted power plant in Kazakhstan! The Zadarya solar power plant project will add 14 MW of solar capacity to Kazakhstan’s energy mix, for a total of 365 MW of existing and planned solar energy! The solar park project will
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