Vive la France. I spent almost a year in the south of France on a student exchange when I had been selected to represent Concordia University in an MBA exchange program in the early 80’s (does that date me or what?). The sun shines all year long in that area.
I remember playing tennis outdoors in January, and then all of Europe arrives starting in May (norwegians provided me with my “best memories”). Being a 22year old single guy, living in Cagnes-sur-Mer, it really couldn’t have been better at that stage of life.
As with other sunshine stories, the one in France that is now developing only points upwards. Finally, some serious incentives are being put into place which could have France rival Germany soon for solar power installations. Seems that they are about to move forward on a serious renewables policy which will see major net-metering paybacks for systems installed, as well as tax rebates.
So when strolling along a shoreline in St-Tropez, the topless beaches may soon have major competition from the villa rooftops when counting the number of “solar” dishes…
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Since me met at the ‘Intersolar’ 2005 in Freiburg, Germany I keep visiting your solar blog from time to time to stay up to date with the ICP story and your view on the ‘Solar World’.
It has been year packed with challenge and and an exciting development of our business with more than 450 new clients and 3 MWp acquired for our B2B platform which makes pvXchange by far the nr 1 B2B photovoltaics platform.
As we’re aiming much higher for 2006 we’re planning to enter the european markets such as Spain, Italy and France. Any inside information about renewables policy in France would be great as being the ‘Frenchy’ in our team I am personally taking care of this market.
Do not hesitate to contact us, there are many opportunities!
Merry Christmas,
Kai (k.malkwitz@pvxchange.de)