The European Commission has approved French plans to develop
2.6GW of small and large-scale solar and 60MW of hydropower.
The Commission endorsed two separate solar schemes, which
have a provisional budget of €8.8 billion (US$9.4 billion) over 20 years.
One scheme helps pay the feed-in tariff (FiT) subsidy to
operators of small-scale solar installations (<100kW) on domestic and
commercial rooftops. This will account for roughly 1.5GW installations.
