Until then, it was necessary to choose between wind or solar.
In Cambrai, in the North, a photovoltaic plant installed on a former NATO air base will mix the two energies.
After the commissioning of the last unit in May, this plant has just been officially inaugurated and must produce 63 Gwh / year, or the equivalent of 27,000 households.
It is somewhat out of necessity that this solar-wind mixture was developed during the construction of the solar power station on the former military airfield.
"In October 2020, we signed a partnership with the neighboring wind farm, developed by the Canadian company Boralex, to deal with a shortage of connection stations to the conventional electricity grid", specifies Sun'R Power, builder of this new central.
A first in France
The two companies have therefore created a mixed connection making it possible to synchronously regulate the powers of the wind and solar generators.
“When the contract was signed in October, it was a first in France,” assures the company Sun'R Power.
This innovation ensures better consideration of the intermittency specific to these two renewable energies.
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The rehabilitation of the site, which began in 2017, has also enabled the soil to be cleaned up at the military base.
For Antoine Nogier, founder of the Sun'R group, “this project proves that we can combine photovoltaics and rehabilitation of declassified land without artificialising the soil”.
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