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Water / Energy

Water / Energy

Overall, in France studies on primary energy and water consumption show a downward trend for several years. INSA Rennes follows this trend. This change in energy consumption is multifactorial and partly due to the various projects carried out on campus.

 

 

  • Major renovation and rehabilitation projects for the INSA Rennes real estate portfolio

Optimizing the upkeep and maintenance of a diverse and energy-intensive real estate portfolio is one of the challenges of INSA Rennes. Heavy renovation and rehabilitation work has been undertaken in order to control energy consumption on the INSA campus. In 2009/2010, various operations contributed to achieving energy savings such as the exterior insulation of building 9  or the completion of the program to replace exterior joinery by treating building 7.
Work has also been undertaken in the M. Drissi amphitheater in order to optimize its energy consumption.

Among these major projects, the insulation and waterproofing of the roof terrace of building 6 and the installation of 400 m2 of photovoltaic panels, i.e. 25 Kwc of installed power. The investment of €650,000 allows for heating savings of around 25% per year. The energy created thanks to the photovoltaic park is directly reused to power the various equipment and in particular the IT servers of INSA Rennes and since 2016, it also powers a terminal allowing the simultaneous recharging of 2 electric or hybrid vehicles.

For Gilles Picoult, technician at the Electronics and Telecommunications department and owner of an electric vehicle, "The INSA Rennes electric terminal goes in the direction of developing clean transport" and Valérie Gouranton, teacher-researcher at the Computer Science department and also driver of an electric car, adds “Its installation is excellent news! There is no other terminal on the Beaulieu campus. We are the first! ".