From pv journal in France
The French railway operator SNCF mentioned this week that it has put in SNCF Renouvelables, a brand new clear vitality unit.
SNFC, with its fleet of 15,000 each day trains and its 3,000 stations and industrial buildings, is the primary client of electrical energy in France, utilizing 9 TWh per yr, together with 8 TWh for prepare electrification.
SNCF Renouvelables plans to allocate 1,000 hectares of its land to develop 1 GW of PV crops, aiming to satisfy 20% of electrical energy wants by 2030. This preliminary section consists of a small which is a part of SNCF’s complete land holdings of roughly 100,000 hectares, making it the second largest land proprietor after the state.
“The price of vitality consumption will greater than double in 2022 and 2023,” mentioned SNCF president Jean-Pierre Farrandou. “This represents greater than €700 million ($764.6 million) only for the vitality used for prepare traction in these two years.”
SNCF already produces its personal electrical energy, with photo voltaic panels on the roofs of its stations or within the shades, by its subsidiary SNCF Gares et Connexions.
Its SNCF Energie unit has additionally been piloting a “company PPA” program since 2018. It has already signed a number of PPAs, together with one with French vitality big EDF, one with Switzerland’s Axpo, and one which has French impartial energy producer Reden.
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