Special envoy to Loos-en-Gohelle (Pas-de-Calais)
Let there be light!
In Loos-en-Gohelle, in Hauts-de-France, under a bright spring sun, the Saint-Vaast church glows with all its typical northern bricks.
This place of worship does not just receive light: it produces it, thanks to the installation of solar panels on its 234 square meter roof.
The building renovated in 2013 provides the network with 38,000 kWh per year and provides the town hall, responsible for its maintenance, with 4,000 euros thanks to the resale of electricity.
The church is not the only building in this town of 7,000 inhabitants to follow an ecological approach.
A few hundred meters away, we discover Chênelet, a set of six social housing units with wooden cladding labeled High Environmental Quality, also equipped with solar panels.
A pioneer in the social field, this eco-construction inaugurated in 2009 intended to prove the possibility of designing energy-efficient housing at a cost…
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