Schneider Electrical will immediately unveil its microgrid resolution Villaya Flex, a packaged microgrid resolution designed for communities for unbiased electrical energy era and decarbonized surroundings.
The clear vitality resolution which meets immediately’s vitality challenges, reduces air pollution from genset utilization, will probably be unveiled on the Alliance for Rural Electrification Vitality Entry Funding Discussion board going down in Lagos, Nigeria on Might 21-23, 2024 .
The discussion board brings collectively non-public and public sector actors to develop entry to vitality, with a give attention to sub-Saharan Africa. The Worldwide Vitality Company estimates that 756 million individuals globally stay with out electrical energy.
The senior vice chairman, Microgrid Line of Enterprise, Schneider Electrical, Bala Vinayagam, mentioned, “Villaya Flex is a renewable vitality resolution that gives vitality entry as a extra sustainable and reasonably priced choice for off-grid communities.
This resolution is designed for off-grid communities and distant villages going through vitality shortages, restricted entry to electrical energy, and excessive gas prices,” Vinayagam mentioned. The answer might be sized, ordered, commissioned, operated, and maintained simply with excessive ranges of battery storage scalability.
The nation president, West Africa, Schneider Electrical, Ajibola Akindele, mentioned Schneider Electrical will interact in advancing investments for renewable electrification, sustainable electrical energy entry, local weather motion, and addressing vitality abilities challenges.
“Moreover, by way of the occasion, the corporate goals to discover alternatives to collaborate with each the non-public and public sectors to drive a sustainable and inclusive vitality transition, unlocking sustainable entry to the long run for all.”
On the occasion, Schneider Electrical may even showcase a spread of modern options to develop vitality entry. Its consultants will communicate on key subjects corresponding to catalysing investments for renewable electrification, decentralising the renewable vitality sector, and accelerating the clear vitality transition throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Schneider hopes to develop its portfolio of merchandise and options that purpose to assist attain the UN’s 2030 goal of common entry to vitality. By means of its Entry to Vitality program established in 2009, it goals to attach 50 million individuals globally to scrub and dependable vitality by 2025.