A solar panel road is pictured on December 22, 2016, following its inauguration in Tourouvre, Normandy, northwestern France. The world's first solar road was inaugurated on Thursday in Normandy, a technology the minister hopes will develop in France and abroad despite criticism of its high cost and profitability. / AFP PHOTO / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU
France on Dec 22 inaugurated the world's first "solar highway", a road paved with solar panels providing enough energy to power the street lights of the small Normandy town of Tourouvre.
The one-kilometre (half-mile) "Wattway" covered with 2,800 sq m (30,000 sq ft) of resin-coated solar panels was hooked up to the local power grid as Environment Minister Segolene Royal looked on.
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