The most obvious option is to install photovoltaic panels on the ground, but it takes a lot of space: between 3,000 and 4,000 additional hectares each year.
Ideally, abandoned sites such as brownfields or parking lots should be covered with solar panels.
But there is not enough.
So how do you make room for solar energy?
In the Landes, it is a forest of 1000 hectares, which could soon be replaced by solar panels.
What is the carbon footprint of this operation?
Cutting down trees to make green electrons, does it make sense?
Water could be an alternative route.
Near Orange, in the Vaucluse, an old quarry has been transformed into a lake covered with photovoltaic panels.
Could this technique be extended to the oceans, which occupy 70% of the earth's surface?
What if we gave the land two or even three functions at the same time?
The Élément Terre team discovered vineyards covered with smart panels near Avignon.
An innovation that would combine agriculture and energy production.
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