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 recorded 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 arrondissement with solar panels to cover the annual consumption of a dozen households.
"
It's not much for Paris, but that's already it
", summed up Patrick Gèze, president of Enercitif, a "
citizen renewable energy cooperative
" with which the city has carried out 15 photovoltaic panel projects in recent years. on the roofs of its public buildings.
In all, Paris currently has around 500 photovoltaic installations, a quarter of which are in town hall buildings.
According to Dan Lert, 21% of the capital is currently powered by renewable energies, 7% of which it produces itself.
Paris aims for carbon neutrality by 2050
“
Our goal 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 so far “
moving
” and by facilitating “
direct contracts with renewable energy producers
" 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, Dan 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 at the horizon 2030. The second Paris Climate Plan voted in 2018 aims to make the capital a carbon-neutral city by 2050.