OL training center, the Groupama Stadium has set up photovoltaic panels that cover 80 % of its electricity needs and now targets self -sufficiency.
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With four defeats during the first nine meetings in Ligue 1, Olympique Lyonnais (OL) is a bad student in the ranking of the French football championship. But there is land on which the club with seven consecutive titles between 2002 and 2008 is at the forefront: energy sobriety.
Inaugurated on January 9, 2016, the Groupama Stadium is presented as a virtuous model of energy consumption. The OL enclosure is the scene of regular arrangements that reduce its carbon footprint. Rhodanian leaders launched in September the project plus 20, minus 20: increase the overall electricity production by 20 %, while managing to lower consumption by 20 %.
As early as 2019, club leaders opted for photovoltaic panels that cover the parking lots around the stadium to provide electricity. Today, these panels, the installation of which has been completed this summer, provide 8 gigawatts per year and allow 80 % of the stadium electricity needs. 2>
horizontal wind turbines
Lyon leaders now plan to buy batteries to store the energy produced by these solar panels. The medium -term objective is clear: to increase production by 20 % to tend towards self -sufficiency in energy matters in the coming years.
By the end of 2023, OL plans to use the roof of the LDLC Arena – the neighboring room where the professional basketball team of ASVEL – and the training center of the training center evolves Football to install new panels. Other projects are being studied, such as setting horizontal wind turbines on urban furniture.
Heating and lighting are the two main electrical consumption stations in sport. The club uses geothermal energy, a process that recovers heat or freshness from the ground depending on the seasons, to heat or cool its lawn. Also privileged to ensure the correct temperature of the common parts of the stadium – such as salons or lodges -, geothermal energy allows to divide by four annual electricity consumption.
Lyon engineers optimize, moreover, the minimum temperature to which the lawn can push. An operation which would further reduce the heating of the land by a few degrees.
As part of the Energy Sobriety Plan presented by the Government, Thursday, October 6, football clubs are invited to reduce the lighting time for 30 % in the evening at 50 % for day meetings. The Professional Football League has enjoined Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs in the process to reduce their stadiums this weekend before and after the matches.
lower the temperature
September 16, In the columns of the Parisian , the Minister of Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, recalled the need to go to LED bulbs with low consumption.
Even today, almost half of first division clubs are equipped with energy -consuming sodium lamps. Lyon took the PAS of LEDs from 2017, eighteen months after the inauguration of Groupama Stadium. “This technology makes it possible to vary the power, instead of staying full pot before and after the match,” said Xavier Pierrot, Stadium Manager Lyonnais.
For this winter, Rhodanian leaders also plan to lower the temperature of the club premises, or even cut hot water in the common areas.
Successful efforts that bear fruit. Since its inauguration, the Lyonnais stadium has managed, each year, to lower its electricity consumption by 5 %. Or a saving of 500,000 kilowatt hours, the equivalent of the average annual consumption of centuries from a hundred French households, according to the distributor Enedis.