CVE is installing a 150 KWp solar micro-grid combining storage and intelligent energy management on the future Diamniadio industrial eco-site in Senegal, with the aim of supplying manufacturers with green energy at an attractive price.
This is a strategic collective self-consumption demonstrator for CVE, with the aim of scaling up to meet the energy needs of 72 businesses that will be housed in 21 buildings between now and 2025.
This could enable the Marseille-based independent energy supplier to step up its export development with a new range of services combining storage, mobility and energy optimisation solutions for local authorities and large industrial sites.
The project was accredited by the cluster, which supported its application to the Call for Projects. "Innovative solutions for sustainable cities in Africa" by the Direction Générale du Trésor and is currently participating in the Monitoring Committee. This is a unique opportunity to benefit from the experience of such an installation on the West African market.
An innovative and exemplary experiment in Senegal
APROSI[1], a public agency of the Senegalese government, was set up on 1 January 2008.er industrial eco-park in Sub-Saharan Africa at Diamniadio, a new sustainable city near Dakar, to support the country's green growth. Cap Vert Energie's solar micro-grid, developed with APROSI, is helping to make the industrial platform more sustainable and more attractive.
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When the demonstrator is commissioned in November, the 7 existing industrial customers will be able to obtain solar energy to meet 50% of their electricity needs. The micro-grid will then be gradually scaled up, up to 12MWp according to 5-year forecasts. The cost of on-site energy should then be competitive with the high price of electricity in Senegal.
" We are experimenting with innovative new business models, with a billing system that encourages manufacturers to shift their consumption to optimise the rate of self-consumption, thereby lowering the cost of their energy bills. " explains Marion Henriet, R&D and Innovation Director, and Hugues Lebel, in charge of CVE's development in West Africa. " If the results are confirmed, this model of microgrids could see the light of day on other industrial sites in Senegal and even elsewhere in Africa. "
A Monitoring Club to provide feedback
Funded in 2019 by the FASEP[2] As part of the call for projects for "Innovative solutions for sustainable cities in Africa" issued by the French Treasury, CVE has set up a project monitoring committee bringing together various local partners and French industry, including Capenergies.
" The cluster, which has supported us throughout the project and challenged us on various aspects, is now associated with this committee to continue to contribute its expertise. "Marion Henriet.
This is an opportunity for Capenergies to provide its ecosystem with feedback on the deployment of technical solutions in non-interconnected areas and on the conditions for introducing French technologies to the West African market. Indeed, the Solar MicroGrid project and its integration into an industrial eco-park could lead to direct replications in the cluster's areas of action (Réunion, Guadeloupe, rural and mountain areas).
After Africa, CVE will replicate the models it has validated in other geographical areas, such as Chile and the United States, where the group is already established.
>> Consult the P2ID Solar Micro-Grid project datasheet
[1] Public agency for the development and promotion of industrial sites
[2] Private Sector Studies and Assistance Fund