In 2009, the local communities of Aquitaine have bet on solar power. With the assistance of the State, they have thus managed to seduce First Solar so that it implements its second European site for the production of photovoltaic panels ("Les Echos" on December 18) in the suburbs of Bordeaux. To take advantage of the 400 jobs to what will be the largest French plant, it took the hands to the portfolio (read below). Communities were similarly for local competitors to the world number one photovoltaic. Fonroche energy comes to invest EUR 10 million near Agen and plans to invest 15 million additional euros next year. To keep in place this industrial who planned to settle near Perpignan, the General Council of Lot-et-Garonne has funded to the tune of EUR 4 million, the land on which was built the factory. On the Regional Council, he paid a portion of the building.
Solarezo, another young specialist of renewable energy, founded by Laurent Giraud, is installed on the vast industrial site (17 hectares) of Sony in Pontonx-sur - L'adour in the Landes who had arrested its magnetic tape manufacturing activity and laid off about 300 people. He bought the symbolic ground for 1 euro and discharged 1. 5 million euros of transfer duties and taxes. Solarezo plans to invest EUR 8 million to achieve a capacity of 60 megawatts (12 today) and 200 jobs in two years.
The ecological critique
For communities, and particularly the region, the interest is of course the employment and the development of an industrial sector that solar energy is promised development for im, the Grenelle of the about event providing a mul tiplication by 30 of the installed capacity by 2020 is 5.400 megawatts. The Panel "made in France", or "made in Aquitaine", provides an additional argument with a carbon footprint less than imported products. This is why EDF Energies Nouvelles is committed to buy the first ten years of production of the future First Solar plant technology, thin, also has the advantage of being less expensive than silicon technology. "We have been criticized for using panels of Chinese origin for future solar Bordeaux Lake Central built by EDF energy news, Editor's note." "Thanks to the First Solar plant, this will no longer the case in the future", also recognized (UMP), Mayor of Bordeaux Alain Juppe, at the signing of the agreement for the implementation of the First Solar plant.
The solar all-out however drew criticism, including environmentalists highlighting the risk of ground stations spread over the forest. In fact, projects multiply with more than 400 megawatts in the boxes including the largest French plant on the ground in Gabardan (Landes) with its panels on 317 hectares million. Communities are seeing a real financial windfall. "It is a false problem." There is no conflict. Assuming that all production of the next 10 years of the First Solar plant to be deployed in Aquitaine, this would be 3,000 hectares when the forest is 800,000. "In addition, for each implementation, we replanting trees", said Paris Mouratoglou, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of EDF Energies Nouvelles. Yet, alongside the State now provides a public inquiry and a study of impact for new photovoltaic installations, the region also anticipated problems of conflicts of use with forestry, or agriculture. To anticipate problems, the Regional Council will create a joint company which will have the mission to organize the "governance" of expertise and eventually take equity and finance certain pilot projects.
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