A major project has started in Bourg-en-Bresse, in Ain, on the Renault Trucks site. Objective: install 40,000 photovoltaic panels on 17 hectares of parking. The equivalent of the consumption of a quarter of the city’s inhabitants.
1,200 car spaces and 1,500 covered truck spaces
Thierry Dutilloy, regional director of TotalEnergies, which is financing the project, explains:
“It is one of the largest photovoltaic shade houses in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and here in Ain, with the particularity of self-consumption for around 4 megawatts peak, which will represent, for the Bourg-en-Bresse site, 30% of their electricity consumption It is interesting, in this factory which today manufactures electric trucks for the Renault Trucks Group, to also see carbon-free electricity. feed it.”
Two years of work for an investment of 20 million euros
The project, costing 20 million euros, will take place over two years on an occupied site, requiring a reorganization of parking lots for the site’s 2,000 employees.
Part of the energy produced will directly power the Renault Trucks site, while the rest will be reinjected into the electricity network.
Renault Trucks is the leading private employer in the Burgundy area.
