For this reason, pioneering large-scale solar power projects have been built in several locations in French Cerdagne, including Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, the Themis plant near Targassonne, and Mont-Louis Solar Furnace in Mont-Louis.
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Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via (Catalan Font-Romeu or Odelló i Vià)
A somewhat different arrangement of heliostats in a field is used at experimental solar furnaces, such as the one at Odeillo, in France.
Her life as an elite sport star ended early, during a training for the 1994 Winter Olympics Monique had a bad fall in Font-Romeu and she broke both her wrists and became paraplegic.
It was the first facility of its kind in the world, and was a precursor of the Odeillo Solar Furnace.