Qair, an unbiased renewable vitality firm and Lesaffre, a key participant in fermentation and micro-organisms for over 170 years, have signed an influence buy settlement (PPA) from an agrivoltaic plant.
Masking a forecast annual buy quantity of round 34 GWh, this extra PPA supplies for the provision of inexperienced electrical energy from an agrivoltaic venture (synergy between agricultural manufacturing and photovoltaic vitality) developed by Qair within the Hauts-de-France area. It is going to allow Lesaffre to proceed decarbonising and thus speed up its vitality transition by growing the proportion of renewable vitality in its vitality provide.
With building beginning in 2025 and operation scheduled for 2026, the plant will keep away from the equal of round 630 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per yr and inject 68 GWh of inexperienced electrical energy per yr into the French energy grid.
“We’re delighted to be participating within the decarbonization of Lesaffre, an organization that shares our dedication to local people help. By agrivoltaics, Qair goals to help farmers, defend their land, and safe their manufacturing. This is the reason we have interaction in co-financing with farmers and native companions to supply complete help to encourage ecological and solidarity transition by means of renewable energies” says Louis Blanchard, CEO of Qair Group.
After a primary PPA signed in 2023 to produce inexperienced vitality to the Group’s largest yeast plant in Marcq-en-Baroeul, Lesaffre is taking one other step in direction of decarbonizing its manufacturing websites in France by signing this second CPPA, which can provide inexperienced vitality to the Biospringer by Lesaffre website in Maisons Alfort, close to Paris. This second signature is in step with Lesaffre’s ongoing dedication to lowering its carbon footprint and vitality consumption. Among the many tasks underway are the set up of a biomass plant on the LIS by Lesaffre website in Cérences (Normandy), the set up of a wind turbine on the Algist Bruggeman website in Belgium, and the signing in November 2022 of a 15-year partnership with one other participant within the vitality sector for the design, financing, building, operation and upkeep of a waste warmth restoration unit on the Lesaffre website in Marcq-en-Barœul. As a part of this drive to decarbonise its manufacturing websites, the Group is at the moment contemplating a variety of investments in renewable energies.
Sheep farming beneath photo voltaic panels
The agrivoltaic venture has been tailor-made to adapt to the wants of the farmers with whom pre-contracts have been signed, paving the best way for the agreements that can materialise with constructing permits. Like Lesaffre, which is dedicated to working with its companions to assist them undertake sustainable practices, Qair designs its tasks to serve native gamers, from the agricultural world to native authorities and industrial purchasers of inexperienced electrical energy, to satisfy all of the vitality wants of those ecosystems.
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