The Port (Reunion)
France has embarked on the race for energy efficiency, with a double challenge in mind. Faced with rising energy prices and climate imperatives, we must reduce the energy consumption of businesses while focusing on the reindustrialization of the country, with, as a result, an increase in electricity consumption. The reduction in energy needs is based on the one hand on sobriety, symbolized by the reduction in the heating temperature or, with the arrival of good weather, that of the air conditioning. And on the other hand, efficiency.
The major works undertaken at the large seaport of Reunion Island, Le Port, perfectly represent the range of actions implemented to achieve this efficiency. The challenge: to manage to combine a reduction in energy consumption with growth in activity. If the two seem contradictory, they are far from incompatible. The challenge is crucial, given the importance of the Port…