French oil major Total to install solar panels at 5,000 service stations

PARIS (Reuters) - French oil major Total announced on Tuesday plans to equip 5,000 of its service stations across the world with solar panels, which it said would cut Total's electricity bill by $40 million a year. Total added that the project represented an investment of around $300 million over 5 years and would cut its carbon emissions by 10,000 tons per year. Total is not the first oil company to put solar panels on its service stations, and the investment is small by the standards of the co