Business park in Chambéry, France

Case study leader

Albedo Energie

Savoie Technolac is a business park located in southeastern France, in the Auvergne- Rhône-Alpes region (Savoie department), built close to the lake of Le Bourget.

The park development (urbanism, economy, energy, etc.) is led by the Grand Chambery area, the regional community council representing a group of 38 municipalities and 138 677 people.

Since its creation, the park is oriented towards energy efficiency and solar technologies for buildings. With more than 1000 researchers and 230 enterprises.

ALBEDO has worked with Savoie Technolac since 2008 and has developed a partnership with the University and INES (national Solar energy research center).

Local Energy Community Buildings

Business park (commercial and offices, small industry, research, services)

involved in the project demo

buildings

stakeholders

people

Immediate potential outreach after the project

buildings

people

Type of business

Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer

Services that will be tested

Collective self consumption, flexibility, mixed type of buildings (office + residential).

Challenge

Leverage this large Energy Community with the support of a real political will. Achieving energy savings can be key to motivating business engagement. The engagement process is based on the existence of formal links between companies in the business park.