Apur presents the current situation of renewable energy and energy recovery production in Paris, and contributes to the debate on ways to evolve which are based on adapting and enhancing what exists already, with the aim of achieving the Climate Plan objectives.
The City of Paris is extremely dependent for its energy supply on sources beyond the city’s limits. Reducing this dependence is closely connected to efforts to reduce energy consumption, the mobilisation of renewable energy and energy recovery premises of all sizes, through heating and cooling networks which will have a strategic role to play, but also more diffuse developments linked to construction and the use of hot water micro-loops.
In 2019, the quantity of renewable and recovered energy consumed on the Parisian territory was 18.4%. The proportion of local renewable and recovered energy consumed was 6.8%.
The aim of the Climate Plan is the ambitious development of renewable and recovered energy reaching 100% renewable energy consumption by 2050, 20% of which is produced in Paris. The Climate Plan also defines a pathway with intermediary objectives in 2030: 45% of the energy consumed being from renewable sources, with 10% produced in Paris.
Several initiatives and tools launched by the City of Paris go in this direction: drawing up Master Plans for heating and cooling systems to lay the way for the future heating and cooling networks, creating “Energy of Paris - Énergie de Paris - ” and a “Carbon co-operative”, putting out a call for projects “Energy-cultivators - Énergiculteurs ” associated with setting up a tool to optimise Parisian rooftops being used and even carrying out the 2016 Participatory Budget project “Positive Energy Neighbourhoods - Quartiers populaires à énergie positive”.
