🎇🎆Inauguration of 4th Pilot site

The project's 4^th pilot site was inaugurated on Tuesday 26th September 2023. 

This pilot site is located at a pig-rearing farm near Chemillé-en-Anjou, France. Piglets need a lot of heat during their first 4 weeks, with temperatures between 35°C (first week) and 24°C (3rd and 4th weeks). Energy needs are very important during the maternity (1st month after birth) and Post-weaning (6 to 8 weeks after maternity) phases. Heating is the first item of energy expenditure since it alone represents 46% of the consumption of a breeder-fattener-type farm. 

There were 60 attendees among whom were pig farmers, pig and poultry farming technicians, livestock equipment distributors, elected representatives, Interreg staff and journalists.

This event was organised by :

• The chamber of Agriculture of Pays de la Loire
• AC3A
• Laval Mayenne Technopole
• FENGTECH
• BOISSINOT ELEVAGE (installer)
• PORC ARMOR EVOLUTION (group of pig farmers).

People were very interested in how this innovative solar thermal power plant works and understood the involvement of the European Community (through Interreg) at the local scale to promote and help energy transition.

As you will notice in the last photo, that there is also an array of Solar PV panels on the farm. This shows that many types of renewable energy sources can be located on a farm simultaneously.