This commune in Eure relies on photovoltaic panels and refuses wind turbines

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There were more elected officials than residents to debate on Wednesday October 23, 2024 the place given to renewable energies in Gisors.

The theme did not move the crowds since only around ten people – elected officials included – gathered this midweek evening for the public meeting organized in the wedding hall.

The mayor of Gisors, José Cerqueirasupported by Emmanuel Hyestdeputy for town planning, presented several avenues of reflection to this limited audience in order to comply with the recent law relating to the acceleration of the production of renewable energies.

Wind turbines rejected

Adopted in March 2023, this law opens up the possibility for municipalities to define several zones reserved for the exploitation of these new energies and to define their nature.

The other Wednesday evening, the presentation provided by the City was clear: Gisors rejects any installation ofwind turbines on its territory.

Only the development of photovoltaic panels – and at the margins of hydraulic energy – has caught the attention of elected officials.

“For the moment, the law does not yet authorize us to define exclusion zones.”

It remains that these areas of acceleration of the production ofrenewable energies will ultimately be integrated into a document with binding legal value transmitted to the prefecture via the Community of communes of Vexin Normandy.

“This document, which will be the subject of a deliberation at the next municipal council of Gisors in December, will be annexed to the local town planning plan”

On the cultural center

We will particularly note the 5,000 m2 identified for photovoltaics on the new surface area of ​​the buildings of the future. cultural center.

The concerted development zone in the station district would move towards a district heating network and biomass, not to mention domestic hot water via solar thermal on the buildings.

Public buildings are also targeted for photovoltaics with the town hall, the intercommunal cultural center or even the Mandela High School.

Finally, areas already marketed via supermarkets could also be identified for photovoltaics accompanied by shade over parking lots.

Not encrypted enough?

So many avenues which, although they were welcomed by the opposition elected officials present at this meeting, were considered too vague.

“We should have been able to precisely quantify this presentation.”

A remark which annoyed the elected representatives of the majority as well as part of the public present who responded in unison that “we had to start with something”.

The question will be debated again and put to a vote at the next Gisors municipal council which will take place next December.

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