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ENGIE x Fondation Solar Impulse

Since 2017, a natural partnership has been established between ENGIE, a leader in energy transition, and the Solar Impulse Foundation, co-founded by Bertrand Piccard, pilot of the first solar electric and zero-emission transatlantic crossing, to identify 1,000 clean, efficient and cost-effective solutions.

 

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The Solar Impulse Foundation
 

When in 2016 Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg managed to fly 40,000 km around the world in a solar-powered plane without using a single drop of fuel, it was a historic first and an unprecedented showcase for clean technologies and renewable energies. The echo of this technological success story among many governments, institutions, companies and celebrities around the globe prompted Bertrand Piccard to create the Solar Impulse Foundation.
 

The Foundation's objective is to bridge the gap between ecology and economy by reducing our impact on the environment while promoting economic development.
 

The Foundation has challenged itself to identify 1,000 clean, efficient and cost-effective solutions to encourage institutional authorities and other decision-makers to set more ambitious environmental objectives and energy policies.


 

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"Governments, companies and institutions must – as a matter of urgency – abandon their minimal targets and commit to far more ambitious environmental and energy policies, focusing their negotiations and action plans on what clean and profitable technologies can actually offer today. Not just for future generations, but for today's industry and for the planet and its inhabitants" Bertrand Piccard, President of the Solar Impulse Foundation

 

Alongside Bertrand Piccard, ENGIE's executives make a commitment:

On April 30, 2020, twelve business leaders, including Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ENGIE, committed themselves, in an article published in the French newspaper Le Monde, to implement very concrete actions to ensure a clean recovery of the world economy.


>> Coronavirus: "Clean and cost-effective solutions are a powerful lever for qualitative rather than quantitative economic growth".

 

On April 13, 2021, in a new article, 14 corporate leaders of the Solar Impulse Foundation, including Catherine MacGregor, CEO of ENGIE, ask companies and investors to understand how these solutions will make their operations more efficient and profitable, and to implement them.

 

 

A shared vision for a positive-impact partnership
 

Since 1 January 2017, ENGIE has been a partner of the Solar Impulse Foundation and sharing its expertise in helping to identify the one thousand clean, efficient and profitable solutions that the Solar Impulse Foundation is seeking.
 

This partnership came about quite naturally, since ENGIE and the Solar Impulse Foundation have a shared vision: they want to reconcile positive impact and economic performance.
 

On the one hand, guided by its raison d'être, "to act to accelerate the transition to a carbon-neutral economy through more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly solutions", ENGIE takes into account environmental and social impacts in the company's performance criteria in addition to the traditional economic criteria. On the other hand, the Solar Impulse Foundation wants to bridge the gap between ecology and economy by reducing the impact on the environment and promoting economic development.

 

The shared aim is therefore to pool such clean solutions and to speed up their development, reconciling initiatives to protect the environment with economic profitability.

 

The partnership was signed for a period of 4 years, until December 31, 2021.
 
To date, 20 ENGIE solutions have been approved by the Foundation: Solarimo, Targeo, Heliasol, Community Solar, Darwin, PowerCorner, District Cooling Systems, Tabreed Vertuoz Pilot, Livin', DERMS Mobile Storage, ELENA Piscines, FAST Charging, BIM PRICE.COM, BEEWE, La Belle Batterie, Charge&Go, EyeTech Remote Assistance, Solar Quest, BOXX.

Solutions from ENGIE with the Solar Impulse Foundation seal of approval

PowerCorner

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PowerCorner

Offers reliable, sustainable and affordable energy services through off-grid mini-grids serving rural customers in developing countries. PowerCorner is an internal start-up within the ENGIE Group with a long-term service commitment towards its customers.  The primary focus of PowerCorner is to support income-generating activities, thereby sustainably improving the living conditions of its customers.

Sustainable cooling for a warming planet

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Sustainable cooling for a warming planet

An effective industrial-scale cooling solution to significantly reduce carbon emissions. With traditional air-conditioning systems proving inefficient by virtue of their design, urban cooling is the solution for developers and end users who are looking for a sustainable, reliable and highly efficient way to cool buildings. Urban cooling also pairs very well with renewable energy production.

Solar Community

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Solar Community

A solar power plant whose electricity is shared by several users, thus enabling more people to access affordable solar power. Customers can hire a solar power "share", so they can switch over to solar power without needing a specific roof… or any kind of roof at all. This makes it an option for people who rent the property in which they live or work.

District Cooling Systems

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District cooling Systems

Since 1991, ENGIE has been developing and operating one of the largest district cooling systems in the world – CLIMESPACE in Paris. Spread over ten production sites, all of which are powered exclusively using renewable electricity, the system generates cooled water which it supplies to more than 600 clients (hotels, offices, retailers, etc.) – via a 73-km long underground network. District Cooling Systems generate an equivalent cooling effect and can reduce water and electricity consumption by up to 65% compared with stand-alone plants.

Vertuoz Pilot

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Vertuoz Pilot

Optimises energy consumption, creating a balance between occupants' comfort and energy savings. It is made up of connected objects installed on site which send measurements read remotely over the Internet to an artificial intelligence algorithm. This algorithm then simultaneously factors in site conditions, consumption targets and various other constraints which can be configured. It then sends a list of actions and orders to actuators installed on site which control heating, lighting and other data on which they are required to perform operations.

Livin’

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Livin’

Designed to meet the needs of urban infrastructure managers, Livin’ is an urban data management platform for monitoring, managing, viewing and creating value from data from connected infrastructure. Livin’ software goes beyond data aggregation to improve efficiency in urban environments and to help engage with citizens.

Heliasol

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Heliasol

Converting the sun’s rays into electricity means being able to meet the energy needs of the world’s population from an infinite primary resource: with photovoltaic solar, there is no risk of depleting the world’s reserves. And using the organic solar films developed by start-up Heliatek, flexible, thin and recyclable, everyone can produce their own green electricity.

DERMS Mobile Storage

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DERMS Mobile Storage

Modular, flexible and patented battery solution. This battery fits into a container that can be moved around to meet temporary energy needs – for an event, during electricity consumption peaks or on a construction site.

ELENA Piscines

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ELENA Piscines

An innovative, patented solution for pools and aquatic parcs which reconciles comfort, air quality and energy efficiency. ELENA Piscines can easily be installed with any existing air-conditioning systems. ELENA Piscines generates immediate and significant savings thanks to sensors located in the swimming pool's hall which measure temperature, hygrometry and condensation. The solution also helps preserving the equipment and the building and reducing energy consumption for air treatment.

FAST charging

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FAST charging

This solution offers a cost-driven smart power management tool and a cost-competitive battery storage system with fast chargers. This type of integration dynamically allocates power resources to different chargers, depending on real-time charging situations and offers optimum user experience, flexibility and additional profits.

 

BIM PRICE.COM

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BIMPRICE.COM

A free simulator to instantly calculate the price and delivery time of buildings and infrastructures digital models and then order them online. Building Information Model (BIM) allows to design, build and maintain a new smart building or turn an existing building into a 'smart' one. With BIMPRICE.COM order a digital model online and have it digitally delivered within days for small projects to a couple of weeks for large ones.

TARGEO

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TARGEO

Geothermal energy provides heat and cold in a decarbonized, non-intermittent and renewable way. TARGEO aims at enabling territories to access the commercial potential of this green energy. The solution makes the economic/technical points of interest of residential geothermal heat pump solutions actionable at a building level (digital guide map) and provides the co-investments and services necessary to carry out installation campaigns within the framework of a contracting model.

BeeWe

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BeeWe

Better production of green energy also means better use of spare parts. BeeWe is a collaborative economy platform where energy production operators pool their stocks of spare parts. Instead of refrabricking new ones, everyone uses the existing ones, and saves time! BeeWe imports stocks of industrial parts (electrical, mechanical, control system...) belonging either to ENGIE or to its partners, suppliers or customers. The dormant stocks then become accessible, and in case of a breakdown somewhere, the necessary part is quickly found and sent by another member of the community not using it in the short term.

Solarimo

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Solarimo

Enables property owners to invest in green energy so that their tenants can benefit from it through a simple offer: the owner invests in a photovoltaic installation on his own roof. This installation is built and operated by Solarimo, which pays a royalty to the owner, providing an attractive return on investment. Thanks to this project, tenants benefit from low-cost local green energy, thus avoiding network costs. Solarimo thus brings solar energy to 50% of the European population living in apartment buildings. The ENGIE start-up offers a "full service" to apartment building owners and sells cheap green solar energy to tenants.

Charge & Go

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Charge & Go

Managing the load of a large fleet of electric buses is complex for operators. Charge & Go, a plug and play solution, allows up to 20 buses to be charged simultaneously, and up to 40 buses to be connected! This innovation therefore contributes to the simple and ecological transition of cities to electric mobility. The Charge & Go products are modular, capable of recharging from different energy sources, adaptable to different bus manufacturers, and ready to use, thus avoiding major investments in infrastructure. This solution adapts to the users' environment, budget and the evolution of your city.

EyeTech Remote Assistance

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Eyetech Remote Assistance

This remote assistance platform has been developed to help share knowledge, resolve problems faster and improve the quality of services. Eyetech Remote Assistance is the first Android hands-free laptop for workers in the industry. Thanks to its voice command, support is easily available when needed, avoiding travel and labor costs. The "I see you see" method is used by a remote technician to request assistance from a specialized technician or a product supplier. The system is used to perform building inspections and highlight problems before and after a contract is signed.

 

La Belle Batterie

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La Belle Batterie

First certification service for electric vehicle batteries. It contributes to unlocking the used electric car market, by offering individuals and professionals accurate, independent and transparent information on the state of health of their vehicles' batteries.

 

Darwin

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Darwin

Digital platform for analyzing data on the production of the Group's wind and solar farms around the world. It allows us to increase their profitability and optimize their efficiency, in order to reduce CO2 emissions as much as possible.

 

Solar Quest

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Solar Quest

Efficient heating technology and energy management system. This heater fine tunes to users’ needs while its battery charges off peak or with renewable energy surplus and discharges to prevent it from consuming power during peak hours. Solar Quest’s purpose is to develop the V2 of heater, able to reinject power stored in the battery into buildings’ grid to power other devices. Solar Quest features are heating, storing and its embedded intelligence. With its infrared radiant panel provide an instantaneous warmth feeling while ensuring a stable temperature and optimal comfort. Finally, the device learns from consumer's habits to optimize power consumption without reducing comfort.

 

BOXX

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BOXX

Tracking and interacting with utilities consumption, at your fingertips wherever you may be. This touchscreen and its mobile app make a powerful tool for tracking electricity, natural gas and water consumption in real time. Users receive alerts and can take advantage of proactive, customisable and actionable services giving them control of their consumption at all times, together with a smart thermostat for keeping their home comfortable and efficient.