aid of 1.5 billion euros for local authorities

In Besançon (Doubs), large-scale work has been carried out to renovate a school and have the walls and roof changed to adapt to the ecological transition. “We also put photovoltaics for self-consumption, a green roof”, describes Christophe Bergerot, the director of the architecture department at the town hall of Besançon, Sunday August 28. The total cost of the work will amount to 60 million euros to renovate the 64 schools in the city.

Energy consumption will be halved thanks to these new installations. The creation of a green fund of 1.5 billion euros could greatly help local authorities to carry out this work. The rehabilitation of wasteland, insulation, the installation of cooling islands and the construction of park-and-ride facilities at the entrance to towns are among the projects concerned. The details of this budget allocated to the energy transition should be unveiled in the fall.