The metropolis of Lyon has announced that the construction of the large wood-fired boiler room in Sainte-Foy-les-Lyon will not be necessary. The recovery of fatal energy will be used as compensation.
The large wood-fired boiler room project in Sainte-Foy-les-Lyon will ultimately not see the light of day. For its Saône-Yzeron heat network project, the metropolis of Lyon will favor “a significant potential for waste heat produced by an industrialist installed in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or”, it indicates in a press release. , this Wednesday, January 8.
“The use of this carbon-free energy will make it possible to avoid having to resort to the construction of a large wood boiler room in the municipalities of Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon and Francheville,” she announces again.
“The recovery and valorization of waste heat from industry constitutes one of the answers to meeting the challenges of energy transition,” affirms the metropolis.
“The equivalent of 25,000 homes, but also businesses and public facilities in the metropolis”, will be affected by this use of recovery energy. The municipalities of Francheville, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, Craponne and the 5th and 9th arrondissements of Lyon can be heated using this heat produced.
“A victory” for the mayor of the town
The wood boiler room project had created great tensions in the town of Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon. A public meeting was held, in the presence of 400 residents, this Thursday, November 14 about this project.
Hostility to this project materialized through the creation of a collective, Beaunant breathewho had requested its abandonment. On Facebook, the mayor of the town, Véronique Sarselli, welcomed the news of its abandonment as a “victory for Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon and for all the citizens who mobilized upon the announcement of this pharaonic project, totally unsuitable for the territory.