An innovative solution for winter road maintenance, and to heat a shop

The system has been heating the shop single-handedly since 2018, when it replaced an oil-fired burner. And it is keeping the roads to the heavy-vehicle car park safe in winter.

 

  • A 96% drop in CO2 emissions
  • Avoiding 20 tCO2eq a year
  • Cut energy bills by 80%

A few key figures

Needs:

  • Heat production: 54 MWh a year
  • Snow removal: 11 MWh a year

 

Installation:

  • Power Road® area: 500 sq. metres
  • Inter-season storage: 20 geothermal probes, 80 metres deep
  • Water-to-water heat pump: 104 kW
  • Coefficient of performance: 4.8

 

Praise for Power Road®

Won top prize in the sustainable infrastructure category at the Green Solutions Awards in 2019.

Qualified for the Ademe (French Agency for Ecological Transition) 2017 call for projects relating to the road of the future, and thereby for the French forward-looking investment programme (the system was called Novatherm at the time).

 

Power Road® in pictures: