the Natural History Museum is trying to limit the bill, despite very high gas and electricity consumption

With its 17 meters in height, the large greenhouse of the The Natural History Museum of Paris is home to plants and animal species under 26 degrees, summer and winter. Water must also be heated for manatees, UV lamps on for iguanas. Result: the greenhouse is an energy abyss. It thus represents a third of the electricity consumption and 40% of the gas consumption of the Zoological Park.

“We have air heaters, which is a gas heating system, destratifiers, which allow the heat to descend and distribute it evenly throughout the greenhouse, and various water treatment equipment for the basins. , which consume electricity”details Pierre-Yves Bureau, director of the Paris Zoological Park. The tropical greenhouse will not be able to drop below 18°C ​​this winter, because too low a temperature could cause many species to suffer. The Museum tries despite everything to limit the bill. According to the management of the museum, 53% of the greenhouses’ energy consumption comes from the recycling of green and household waste.