Round table : Solar energy and society

Moderated by : Fabienne Chauvière, journalist

Presentations

• Focus on Switzerland: Reto Camponovo, Haute École du paysage, ingénierie et architecture, Geneva
• Focus on Germany: Vincent Boulanger, Franco-German journalist
• The Énergie Partagée experience : Justine Peullemeulle, Énergie Partagée coordinator
• Challenges facing citizens' collectives in France: Andreas Rüdinger, IDDRI
• An association of farmers producing PV energy : Pascal Chaussec, APEPHA
• Issues and challenges of agrivoltaics: Christine Poncet, INRA

Fabienne Chauvière

Journalist and producer at France Inter.
Specializes in science, energy and agriculture.

Reto Camponovo

Energy engineer with fifteen years' professional experience in two major engineering firms.
Ordinary HES professor at HEPIA - Geneva School of Landscape, Engineering and Architecture - where he is also head of the Environment, Climate, Energy and Architecture Group.
This interdisciplinary group's fields of research include urban microclimate, solar energy deployment and building renovation processes. The group's mastery of advanced metrology remains one of the distinguishing features of its work.
Its lectures for future architects focus on building energy, technical systems and project sustainability. Head of an interdisciplinary project workshop (architects, engineers, landscape architects) dealing with the development of urban spaces resilient to climate change.
Since 2015, he has chaired the jury for the Prix Solaire Suisse and is a member of the Norman Foster-BEP jury.

Pascal Chaussec

APEPHA is a national association created in 2010 by a group of farmers producing photovoltaic electricity, to provide effective support for its members. In 2022, APEPHA will have over four hundred and fifty members, with photovoltaic installations ranging from 9 to 3,400 kWp. APEPHA's ethic is to facilitate the emergence of solar projects, independently and primarily on non-agricultural roofs and soils, but also on agricultural land within the framework of certified agrivoltaics, a vector of synergies between agricultural and electricity production. APEPHA is preparing for the economic models of the future: collective self-consumption, participative and collective investment, energy storage, hydrogen production.