"It's a nice Christmas present", rejoices a resident of Dangeau, in the south of Eure-et-Loir.
The prefecture has just rejected the installation of nine wind turbines 200 meters high in the municipalities of Flacey, Dangeau and Logron.
"The project is located between 37.1 and 37.8 km from the radar of the armies of Orleans (...) in electromagnetic intervisibility", argues the environment department of the prefecture.
North of Orleans, near Eure-et-Loir, the French Air Force and Space operates the Bricy base, which houses around 2,000 soldiers.
It is the main French base for large transport planes, in particular the Airbus A400 M which, for example, served for airlifts with the West Indies at the height of the health crisis in 2020. It is also there that is hosted by CPA 10, the Air Force special forces commando.
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On the side of the opponents of wind turbines, united in the Stop Eolien 28 collective, it is a victory, even if we would have liked the order of the prefecture to be also based on the opposition of residents.
In this rural department, 255 wind turbines are in operation and about sixty others are authorized or under construction, this is sufficient, essentially considers this collective of several associations.
RP Global, the promoter of this wind farm, does not want to challenge in court the order taken by the prefect Françoise Souliman.
“We were aware of the rejection.
We are simply going to modify our project, ”explains Arnaud Ponche, managing director of this Lille design office of around twenty employees, a subsidiary of a small Austrian family group present in several countries.
The promoter will submit a new file
A new file will be filed before the end of January, assures RP Global, which is reviewing the height of the wind turbines downwards in order to comply with the constraint of the Orléans Bricy radar.
"If France and Europe want to meet the challenge of green electricity, there must be no break in the effort, here as elsewhere on the territory", adds Arnaud Ponche, who inaugurated last month a park of four wind turbines in Parthenay (Deux-Sèvres), "perfectly accepted by the population and local elected officials", he explains.
The fact remains that this little-known constraint on the Orleans Bricy radar will now weigh on several other projects underway in this vast agricultural area between Orléans, Châteaudun and Chartres.
