Off-grid electricity

As a responsible partner, we have been at Africa‘s side to invest in sustainable development for over fifty years. We apply our experience to rural electrification projects that promote clean energy, through decentralised service and production companies set up in partnership with local enterprises.

In South Africa, EDF is the major shareholder of the KES company (in partnership with Total and Calulo) created in 2002, with the aim to equip 270 000 south African people in remote regions of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. KES installs and operates photovoltaic kits supplying light and giving access to radio, television or cell phone chargers.

EDF has also been involved in the Khayelitsha township electrification in the 90s through a joint- venture with local electricity company Eskom and has participated to the installation of low- consumption lighting in one of the surroundings townships in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality.

In Senegal, EDF is majority shareholder of the company Energie Rurale Africaine (in partnership with Matforce), created in 2011, which manages the concession of one fourth of the country. Thanks to ERA, 180 000 people will thus be provided with access to electricity in due course.

In Morocco, over 160 000 people have access to electricity generated by solar power distributed on behalf of the Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable (ONEE) thanks to Temasol (an EDF-Total subsidiary, ceded in 2011).