Near the Château de Chambord, the decor is unusual.
For the past week, 150 solar panels have been installed in an alley very close to this renaissance jewel, about 80 m long.
Do not panic, it is not a photovoltaic park but the temporary deployment of a mobile power plant.
Its goal ?
Offset the carbon footprint of the Sting concert, expected on site this Tuesday, June 28, for an exceptional evening which has been postponed twice due to the pandemic.
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The project is led by the Orleans-based company Groupe Roy Energie, which specializes in photovoltaic energy, in conjunction with the company producing the concert AZ Prod and the Chambord estate.
"This is an experiment, the goal is to demonstrate that with our photovoltaic panels, we can produce at least as much electricity as the concert will consume", explains the founding president, Romain Roy, moreover. elected municipal official on the team of the mayor of Orléans.
Generators as a precaution
These panels are stored in a container and unfold in less than half an hour.
Another container houses an electrical cabinet and an inverter that transforms alternating current into direct current and which can be plugged into.
If the energy is not consumed directly, it can be stored on batteries.
This life-size demonstration will however remain theoretical, since the organizers, as a precaution, will keep their own generators to power the sound system.
But the company, which employs 82 people, intends to rely on this experiment to convince its future customers of the value of its product.
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The containers, of which another hydrogen version is under study, are currently in the marketing phase.
Among the main customers approached, Romain Roy cites the Army, which could equip itself with it to be self-sufficient in energy on an isolated site.
If successful, Groupe Roy Energie could create 150 jobs over three years.