2023-10-11 07:00:16
One million: this is the number of heat pumps that Emmanuel Macron wants to see produced each year on French soil, by the end of the five-year term. A source of jobs to produce them, but also to install them in private homes. Bouna Diarra, 29, understood this well: “I already trained as a refrigeration engineer in 2015, but I didn’t find a job, so I worked in insulation, as a delivery driver for Amazon, as a garbage collector… Then I heard about in the heat pump business, so I wanted to get back into that. This is a very technical area, which requires a lot of practice. » Ten days ago, he started intensive training to become a heat pump installer at La Solive, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), a school specializing in energy renovation professions.
For training organizations, the explosion in this specific field of thermal systems is a boon. “We know what needs to be done to reduce the carbon footprint of the building, but there are big obstacles: there is no company that easily finds people. » La Solive was born in 2021 from this observation, remembers Côme de Cossé Brissac, co-founder of the school. Of the 170,000 to 250,000 additional jobs expected by 2030 in the energy renovation of buildings, according to France Stratégie, “30,000 pump installers will be needed by 2028, and 15,000 people for maintenance”he explains.
At La Solive, in Nanterre, September 26, 2023. SIMONE PEROLARI FOR “THE WORLD”
In the workshop, around ten of these machines which run on electricity sit near the area where the exclusively male team of learners works. A dozen boxes represent as many exercises where they take turns to work on different types of walls or cables. Their trainer supervises an exercise on the outdoor unit of a so-called “air-water” pump, which draws outside air to transform a refrigerant liquid into gas which, when compressed, can heat the water. “There, we have to expel the air? », asks an intern, surrounded by his comrades. Before the trainer’s approval, he acts on the nitrogen cylinder, and air comes out 2 meters further through a refrigeration tube.
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Trained as a refrigeration engineer, Nicolas Scheidt, 36, multi-entrepreneur and now trainer, insists on the versatility of the profession, halfway between electricity, plumbing and refrigeration techniques. “The heat pump is not my main activity, but it is a good market. There are still many companies that manage the administrative part but not the work, but they are often poorly done because there are no competent technicians. »
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