GALWAY, IRELAND--January 11, 2012 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) France has announced measures to help bail out its ailing solar energy industry and boost the use of European solar equipment. The country's Energy Minister, Delphine Batho, has said that the government wants to double the country's development of new solar capacity to 1,000-megawatts (MW) a year, starting with a tender later this month for 400 MW of new capacity from large ground or roof-based projects.