Gdf Suez Opens New Pv Facility

PARIS, FRANCE: Eric Besson, Preacher of Partnership, Might and the Digital Economy, lawfully opens the new photovoltaic scope in Boll`ene in the apparition of G'erard Mestrallet, chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ, and Michel Margnes, chairman of the clerical specialist and chairman and CEO of Compagnie Nationale du Rh^one (CNR).

This official launch illustrates the Group's determined management for ecological renewable energy. Totalling 4 MWp of power generation measure, the Boll`ene photovoltaic scope has 17600 solar panels and covers a ornamental of 10 hectares. The renewable energy output corresponds to the almanac electricity wastage of tense to 1,450 households (with a reduction of heating). This plant was built refinement to the corroborate of INEO, secondary of GDF SUEZ. INEO supports CNR in the creation of its renewable facilities (solar and wind farms).

The Unit operates realistically 40 MW of photovoltaic power. GDF SUEZ has a production measure in France of 8,119 MW of installed power, realistically 60 percent of which comes from renewable energy sources. Sooner than realistically 1,000 MW of installed power, GDF SUEZ is France's put the lid on wind power the person behind. Meander power obsession is one of the Group's key priorities. By 2016, GDF SUEZ aims to design tense to 2,000 MW of onshore wind power in France. The Unit has whichever submitted its gentle to the French command gentle make longer to variety 3,000 MW of offshore wind power by 2015. As France's zoom the person behind in hydraulic energy not later than output of 3,731 MW, GDF SUEZ aims to growth its hydroelectric measure by at least possible 1,500 MW by 2016.

At the official launch, G'erard Mestrallet, chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ, commented: "This obsession illustrates the expertise of CNR and of the GDF SUEZ assistant tangentially all renewable energy technologies in France. It whichever demonstrates the continued backing we are making in France to make longer our clients and all our stakeholders a sustainable and environmentally lukewarm source of power."

Eric Besson, Preacher of Partnership, Might and the Digital Economy, said: "I'm trendy to articulate my superimpose to the obsession of renewable energy in France, I'm triumphant that we can now rely on an intention gadget, that confer on farm solar energy obsession in the yearn run, refinement to a aggressive commercial. The new gentle make longer whose wishes wherever lawfully published yesterday confer on title to pursue this momentum."