To fight against the waste of good land, what if we started by covering the unbuildable areas that are no longer exploited?
This is what the Alsatian Tryba Energy will do, which is preparing the building permit for a 5 MW solar power plant on a former site depot on the A19 motorway, east of Montargis (Loiret).
He hopes to drop it off next spring.
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On the immediate edge of the dual carriageway, the site no longer accommodates anything, except a few piles of stones and weeds.
Opened in 2009, the A19 motorway links the A10 at Artenay (Loiret) to the A6 at Sens (Yonne).
As Cofiroute has set up the operations center in Saran, north of Orleans, the Chantecoq site is no longer useful to it.
“The availability of land is one of the major challenges for all renewable energy developers.
Abandoned motorways are a good solution, ”says Nicolas Sur, director of the company Tryba Energy, a subsidiary of the Tryba group better known for being a manufacturer of windows and shutters.
A solution dedicated to being duplicated throughout the Vinci network
This company will erect solar panels on 5 hectares along the road.
The land had been used during the construction of the A19 to store materials and machinery.
For more than ten years, it has been empty.
"The studies are underway, the site should start in 2023", specifies Nicolas Sur.
This solar power plant is then intended to be duplicated on the entire Vinci motorway network, ie more than 4,400 km of roads throughout the country, via its subsidiaries Autoroutes du Sud de France, Cofiroute, Escota ... offers are underway, we have positioned ourselves, ”explains Nicolas Sur, whose company already operates 300 installations, for a total of 60 MW.
In Loiret, Tryba Energy will invest 4 million euros to build this solar park, which will supply the equivalent of 1,500 homes.
It will pay a royalty to Cofiroute, which remains the owner of the land.