This article is from Figaro Magazine
Since the Fessenheim nuclear power plant was closed, Alsace has been a good student of the energy transition. Thanks to the natural faults in its subsoil in which water circulates at very high temperatures (between 150 and 180 ° C), this region believes it has found the solution to produce local and low-carbon energy.
Deep geothermal energy makes it possible to drill wells thousands of meters deep Three power plant projects were launched from 2018, with the objective of heating the equivalent of 23,000 homes and producing an electricity consumption equivalent to 50,000 homes, "summarizes the mayor of Hoerdt, Denis Riedinger, a municipality that is located in the large suburbs north of Strasbourg, not far from the Vendenheim power plant. But not everything went as planned.
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