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Interview with Alain Legal, mayor of Faux since 2008, community of 610 inhabitants, local council community for the southern Périgord region, in Dordogne. After having visited a solar power plant in 2012 in the Gers region, the elected officials of Faux decided to install a photovoltaic power plant on a

Interview with Pascal Legendre, president of the Mézinais local council community in the Lot et Garonne region since 2014. At the start of the project, the community purchased a former industrial waste site to develop an economic project and photovoltaic energy was the opportunity they wanted to take advantage of.

Interview with Daniel Boyer, mayor of Aigaliers since 2001, village of 500 inhabitants near Uzès in the Gard region. Inaugurated at the end of May, 2016, this next generation ground-mounted solar power plant was born of the shared engagement, starting in 2009, of Daniel Boyer, his municipal council, and the

Interview with Alain Delsol, mayor of Lavernose-Lacasse, town of 3,000 inhabitants along the Garonne River, south of Toulouse. For his third term, Alain Delsol undertook, along with his municipal council, a project to develop former gravel quarries that had been exploited for thirty years. Property of the town, these spaces

Interview with Marie-Aline Edo, mayor from 2004 to 2020 of La-Tour-Sur-Orb, a town of 1,500 inhabitants in the western part of the Hérault region, near Bédarieux. Marie-Aline Edo, along with her town council, responded in favor of a proposal to create a renewable energy production site in her community: “Even

Interview with Roger Meï, mayor of Gardanne from 1977 to 2020, a town of 20,000 inhabitants and the historic capital of the mining basin of Provence. “I am a mayor who has had a real ecological approach for 40 years. We lived through the closing of the coal mines and