The conversion of the Porcheville (Yvelines) oil-fired power plant, which has been shut down since 2017, has been launched.
An agreement has just been signed between the Île-de-France region and EDF to transform part of this immense thirty-hectare area into a “photovoltaic farm”.
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Next year, 18,000 solar panels will be installed on around ten hectares of the EDF site.
They will enable production of 10 megawatts, or the annual consumption of nearly 6,400 homes.
The electricity thus produced will be “injected” into the existing network near Limay but, with solar energy, “the electron is consumed as close as possible to its production zone”, explains EDF Renewables, the subsidiary of the French giant in charge of the project.
In short: the inhabitants of Porcheville, or Limay, will be able to watch television thanks to these solar panels…
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