Energy performance contracting providing 35% reduction of energy consumption in 14 secondary schools in Alsace (France)
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Posting Date | 8 March 2010
Countries | France
Type of News | News from countries
Theme | Public and non residential buildings, Environmental issues related to buildings, General, Very low energy buildings
Target Group | Local/regional/national authorities and facilitators
Submitted by Stephane le Gentil (Johnson Controls)
The Regional Council of Alsace has signed on December 22, 2009 an Energy Performance Contract (EPC) for fourteen high schools in Alsace. Concluded for twenty years, from 1 January 2010, it will reduce by 35% the energy consumption of all buildings and by 65% the emissions of greenhouse gases, avoiding the emission of 90 000 tonnes of CO2 over the lifetime of the contract. In France, it is the first Energy Performance Contract for a community in the form of a partnership agreement on public facilities.
€ 30 million will be invested in the fourteen schools in 2010 and 2011. These works represent a sum variable from 1 to 4 M € per school and include:
-Construction of six biomass boilers,
-Optimization of heating and ventilation in schools,
-Installation of 5 000 m² of photovoltaic panels,
-Generalization and improvement of heating controls,
-Insulation of buildings.
More information on: http://www.region-alsace.eu/
Submission URL(s) | http://www.region-alsace.eu/
Source Languages | English
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