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To achieve carbon neutrality in 2050, it is not enough to reduce the number of thermal cars, we must also develop renewable energies. The city of Paris equips its public buildings with solar panels.
They appear on top of newly constructed buildings, on schools, but also gymnasiums. Solar panels are multiplying in Paris and line the corrugated roof of the Jean-Bouin rugby stadium. More than 3,500 photovoltaic panels supply some fifty homes with electricity. Clean electricity, produced locally and above all cheaper.
A complicated installation on some roofs
“With the energy crisis we are experiencing, there is an additional cost on energy bills in 2023 of more than 100 million euros. With short-circuit renewable energies such as solar, we have better control of the electricity bill. energy of the city of Paris”, deciphers Dan Lert, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of ecological transition. But installing solar panels in Paris can be complicated: zinc roofs and many heritage-listed buildings are protected. Some individuals, through cooperatives, also participate in the energy transition of the capital. But with 500 solar panel installations, Paris is still far from other European cities.
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