4 Questions About New Caledonia’s Planned Heart-Shaped Solar Field

Last week a solar power company based in Australia announced plans to build the world’s first heart-shaped solar field in New Caledonia, a French island in the South Pacific that currently gets most of its energy from coal, oil, and gas. The “heart shape” of Conergy’s forthcoming solar installation was inspired by the neighboring topography of “Coeur de Voh”, or “Heart of Voh”, an area of wild mangrove vegetation that has naturally taken the shape of a heart. Like the local landscape that inspired it, the heart-shaped solar array will be viewable by air. The panels that comprise the project will produce enough energy to power 750 homes on the island, according to Conergy, saving an estimated two

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