“Eight months a year, from 10 to 4 p.m. every day, we don't buy electricity. » The mayor, Alain Maillé, did not hide his satisfaction, Thursday November 7 afternoon, in the Yvon-Pejean village hall, presenting the renovation of the village hall. The inauguration took place on Tuesday October 15 and the contract with Enedis signed in 2023.
For more than twenty years, the Puchoise municipality has worked on energy savings and LED bulbs are used in public lighting. Alain Maillé, elected municipal councilor in 1995, became mayor in 2018, after the death of Christian Pejean. “Our thinking started from the idea that the first money saved is the one we do not spend,” summarized the first councilor. “The initial project to renovate the village hall, in terms of carpentry and wall lining, was enhanced with energy performance, by abandoning fossil fuels.”
“60% savings”
The ceiling of the village hall was lowered and bio-sourced materials were used. Annex buildings were built all around the municipal hall and thus create energy buffer zones. Photovoltaic panels with a power of 9 kW for each site were installed on the roofs of the village hall, the town hall and the school. The electricity produced is thus shared and self-consumed collectively, with a redistribution of unconsumed energy to other municipal buildings. “With geothermal energy and self-consumption, we should achieve 60% savings,” insisted Alain Maillé.
The amount of the initial project, estimated at approximately one million euros, was subsidized almost 70% by the State (DETR and Green Funds), the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, the Department and the Community of Communes of Confluent and of the Coteaux de Prayssas. “The reimbursement over twenty years will be paid 50% by savings,” said Alain Maillé.
A second identical collective energy self-consumption project should see the light of day in Marmande next year.
