At a conference at Corum in Montpellier, the Renewable Energies Union is working on the future

Le photovoltaïque, une solution en zone rurale comme en zone urbaine. Midi Libre – M. Esdourrubailh

Il organise toute la journée de ce jeudi son 9e colloque national, sur le thème du photovoltaïque.

The Renewable Energy Union (SER), which brings together all renewable energy producers in France, has chosen Montpellier for its 9th national conference, which is being held all day Thursday at the Corum, targeted on photovoltaics and its future. And the choice of Corum is not trivial.

"Montpellier is the cradle of renewable energies", recalls Jules Nyssen, the president of the SER. The former general director of services for the City of Montpellier, under Hélène Mandroux, cited some great companies, such as Qair, Valeco, Arkolia, without forgetting "The Wind Company, the first at the time to have invested this field".

"Having ambition for a European sector"

The conference, whose central theme is "Photovoltaics : anatomy of a new era", will have the task of responding to the challenges of tomorrow . There are two of them, according to Jules Nyssen, who intends to send messages. With a major reminder: "60 % of our fossil energy is imported".

Jules Nyssen, president of the Renewable Energies Union (SER) and former DGS of Montpellier, is organizing the conference on photovoltaics at Corum this Thursday.

"The first is that if we want to do without fossil fuels, we should focus on renewable energies and stop putting constraints& ;quot;. A message intended for public authorities. "The second is to remember that there are gigantic markets and that we are not going to do it with Chinese photovoltaic panels alone; you have to have ambition to develop a sector on a European scale.

L’Occitanie, second French region

All the national players in renewable energies, and those in photovoltaics in particular, are coming to Montpellier. The opportunity to identify the ambitions of a region, Occitanie, which is one of the most dynamic in this area. It claims to be the second region in France for installed photovoltaic power, "with 2 500 hours of sunshine per year".