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Smart mini-grids to provide affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy services for off-grid populations
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MySol Grid
Smart mini-grids to provide affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy services for off-grid populations
Label Date
July 22, 2022
By
ENGIE
From
France
Maturity stage
TRL 9 / CRI 3-4 - Commercial Scale Up / Multiple commercial Applications
ENGIE MySol Grid produces reliable, clean and productive energy and provides affordable energy services, easily accessible to isolated populations. The solar mini-grid installation is connected via smart electricity meters to several thousands of users, such as small industries and workshops (tailoring, welding, woodwork, agribusiness, etc.), public services (schools, health centers, water pumps, telecom infrastructures), businesses (beauty salons, shops & restaurants, cinemas), families and individuals. MySol Grid combines solar energy, mobile money, pre-paid smart energy meters, access to efficient appliances, and social engagement to offer a compelling service to customers. By providing entrepreneurs with new opportunities to develop their activities and launch new ones, ENGIE MySol Grid unlocks the economic potential of the communities and enables a quick enhancement of the living conditions.
The Environmental Benefits
- •16 mini-grid sites in operation or construction, over 6000 connections and more than 30000 people impacted (currently expanding activities in new countries replicating the same business model)
- •One fully integrated 2.0 mini-grid of 600 kWp in operation in Uganda which includes an industrial park for ice machine, dry machine and water pump, with an e- mobility option (16 electric boats and 10 electric motorbikes)
- •Mini-grid customers can pay with mobile money to upload their smart meters
- •A program of mini-grids with 40,000 connections will avoid the emission of around 20,000 tons of CO2 per year
- •Intelligent irrigation system linked with the Solution's minigrid reduces agricultural losses by about 30% and ensures the efficient use of water
- •Providing services of electric mobility (e-boats and e-motorcycles) powered by solar mini-grids to rural African fishermen and moto taxis in order to reduce their energy costs and their impact on the environment.
The Financial Benefits
- •Main focus in providing solutions to productive uses: electricity as an enabler of economic growth, improved life quality of customers as the Solution provides efficient appliance on lease and cash basis
- •The use of mobile money translates to financial inclusion for the customers who are otherwise excluded from the financial services industry
- •No dependence on diesel and its price fluctuations
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ENGIE
Our group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services.
Headquarters
92400 Courbevoie, France
Type
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