In December 2013, the European Union imposed trade defence measures on solar panels and cells from China, which are set to expire in September 2018.
The French company "Sunna design", based in Bordeaux, produces solar panels for public lighting in several countries around the world.
The ‘Clean Energy for all Europeans’ package of legislation is the EU’s response to the Paris Agreement on climate change, setting out the bloc’s energy and climate policies for 2030.
Europe is the most solarised region in the world with 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar power installed.
The solar-powered Solar Impulse plane landed in Brussels late on Friday on its first international flight, 13 hours after leaving Payerne airport in western Switzerland. The landing was delayed by about 40 minutes by strong winds. Take-off on Friday morning had already been delayed by fog. Bertrand Piccard, the man behind the Solar Impulse idea, described the flight as a "historic moment", and stressed its symbolic importance for flight using renewable energy.
