PARIS: The French ecology minister has cleared nearly 300 wind and solar power projects with total installed capacity of about 1.7 gigawatts, saying she has also approved several project deadline extensions because of the coronavirus outbreak.
“The health crisis we are going through must not in any way make us give up the ambitious objectives in terms of development of renewable energies,” Elisabeth Borne said in a statement on Wednesday.
Borne said that progress on several renewables projects and the calendar for France’s renewables tenders have been disrupted by the outbreak.
