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- The EIB and sustainable development
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- Helios Bay: a flagship sustainable development project
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This film tells the story of a successful financing partnership. Helios Bay is the New Caledonia's first photovoltaic plant located on the coast 40 km from Nouméa. With an installed capacity of 2.1 MW, this plant can feed into New Caledonia's grid 3 million KWh a year, equivalent to the consumption of 800 to 1 000 homes.
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This film tells the story of a successful financing partnership. Helios Bay is the New Caledonia's first photovoltaic plant located on the coast 40 km from Nouméa. It is cooled naturally by the trade winds, has a very high number of hours of sunshine and low levels of rainfall. Covering three hectares of east-west facing hillside with 10 000 panels, this plant represents an economy of 250 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and avoids the emission of 1 710 of CO2 a year. With an installed capacity of 2.1 MW, this plant can feed into New Caledonia's grid 3 million KWh a year, equivalent to the consumption of 800 to 1 000 homes.
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