He wants to decentralise energy in France

Grégory Pons has been an expert in photovoltaics and energy storage for more than 25 years, and is CEO of AVEIL and LIMELO.

He started at 17, installing off-grid solar panels on a mountain hut in the Alps. Since then, he has contributed to more than 600 MWp of solar power plants in France, nearly 5% of the national market, working at BP and LUXEL and then in his own companies. Today, he campaigns for decentralised, local and sovereign energy, and is betting on collective self-consumption.

In this interview

• From an Alpine mountain hut to 600 MWp: 25 years in photovoltaics
• How a ground-mounted solar power plant is built
• Regulations, IEC standards, recycling and decommissioning (APER law)
• Collective self-consumption: produce here, consume there, peer to peer
• LIMELO: distributing local energy without the administrative complexity
• Energy and blockchain: sovereignty and the tokenisation of a solar power plant
• Solar and nuclear: competition or complementarity in the French energy mix?
• AI and smart grids serving the electricity network
• His advice for future engineers, and the failure that taught him to put people back at the heart of things

Find out more

• Grégory Pons on LinkedIn
• AVEIL (aveil.fr)