We experienced the closure of coal mines, and Gardanne’s ambition is to become a positive energy city with no greenhouse gas emissions. With the biogas from the municipal landfill, we are already producing electricity. The second project involved using the slag heaps from former mines to install a ground-mounted solar plant. My philosophy is simple: all human activity causes pollution, so we must manage both aspects of the problem—activity and pollution. I received no negative feedback; there are no neighbors, nothing in that area. Urbasolar managed the constraints related to the specifics of the soil well, as it is land where nothing can be excavated. Photovoltaics is growing, and that’s a good thing.
