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The Energy Centre is the first new building at the Abbey in a century, and the first major achievement of the Fontevraud Sustainable city programme, and as such is a unique experience in France in a historical monument. the Abertis Foundation.
and the Spanish Network, UNESCO School in South East Europe represents a unique educational opportunity to enhance capacity-building in sustainable energy by conveying in a single venue a substantial capital of knowledge, Green energy to light a World Heritage site Virunga National Park’s first hydropower plant has started to generate electricity. Most residents in the area currently rely on dirty and, News Archives. The challenge involves ensuring Fontevraud’s energy transition by reducing consumption and contribution to the greenhouse effect, by meeting energy needs with renewable forms of energy and by making use of local resources.
Since November 2012, all of the buildings at Fontevraud Abbey have been heated with facilities in the energy centre (a wood heater that can meet the needs of 500 homes of 4 people and 92 paneles solares), instead of fuel and electric heating. News Archives.
Their short-circuit delivery – which makes use of some twenty lorry rotations a year – helps to reduce fuel consumption as part of eco-local development.
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Valle del Loira Patrimonio de la Humanidad
Abbaye de Fontevraud
