Helios Bay: a flagship sustainable development project

•  Date: 28 July 2010
•  Duration: 3:41

Language : français

This film tells the story of a successful financing partnership. Helios Bay is the New Caledonia's first photovoltaic plant located on the coast 40 km from Nouméa. It is cooled naturally by the trade winds, has a very high number of hours of sunshine and low levels of rainfall. Covering three hectares of east-west facing hillside with 10 000 panels, this plant represents an economy of 250 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and avoids the emission of 1 710 of CO₂ a year. With an installed capacity of 2.1 MW, this plant can feed into New Caledonia's grid 3 million KWh a year, equivalent to the consumption of 800 to 1 000 homes.

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