The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo will unveil “in the coming days” her energy sobriety plan for the capital, her assistant for ecological transition said on Wednesday, recalling the city’s ambitions for renewable energies.
Energy sobriety, the protection of Parisians and the acceleration of the energy transition are the three priorities set out by the mayor and her majority on the left during a back-to-school seminar on Monday, summarized Dan Lert (EELV) by inaugurating in the 12th rounding off the solar panels to cover the annual consumption of a dozen households.
It is not much for Paris, but it is already there, summarized Patrick Gze, president of Enercitif, a citizen cooperative of renewable energies with which the city has carried out in recent years 15 photovoltaic panel projects on the roofs of its public buildings.
In all, Paris currently has around 500 photovoltaic installations, including a quarter in town hall buildings.
According to Dan Lert, the capital is currently powered by 21% renewable energies, 7% of which it produces itself. Our objective is 45% in 2030, including 10% produced locally, he recalls.
The step is very high, we must not hide it, concedes the elected official, who calls on the government to make a clear choice by stabilizing a legal environment that has hitherto been in flux and by facilitating direct contracts with producers of renewable energies and the massification of self-consumption, i.e. direct solar production for the inhabitants or users of the building.
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Through a new program, the City will launch on 12,000 m2 of surface 15 other solar energy plants, including 3 in 2023, he announced.
On energy renovation, Mr. Lert recalled that the city had tripled the budgets for the energy renovation of buildings, through a new plan of nearly 60 million euros for an ambitious objective of 40,000 housing units renovated per year by 2030.
The second Paris Climate Plan voted in 2018 aims to make the capital a carbon-neutral city by 2050.