Electricity for a festival in the middle of a field, or for a small hospital in the depths of the bush, all without using a diesel generator. It’s good for morale, it’s good for the planet… and it’s good for the wallet. Ecosun Innovations, an Alsacian company, has developed Plug & Play mobile electricity production units, equipped with solar panels (made in Alsace) and European batteries. Enough to replace expensive and polluting diesel generators.
Initially developed for developing areas, these production units have been experiencing “real demand” for two years from professionals, but also from individuals, according to Frédéric Rohmer, director of Ecosun Innovations. “A little against all odds in Europe, and particularly in France,” he says. Construction trades (BTP), organizers of major events, ecotourism… The production of green energy is attractive. “Everything is pre-assembled, pre-wired, ready to be deployed in a few minutes with the help of two or three people. All that remains is to press the ”on” button”, explains Frédéric Rohmer, who does not fail to point out that this does not require battery or energy management specialists either.
And electricity, the Ecosun group has mastered it for fifteen years, particularly throughout the Grand-Est region: producer and installer of photovoltaic energy for industrialists, the group’s Innovations department, created five years ago, has developed a range of Plug & Play mobile solar solutions. In particular in container, transportable to the end of the world by boat. Their playground? Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and more recently Southeast Asia and Australia.
“A kW five to seven times cheaper”
No more pollution, but also noise and odors… The autonomous mobile generator allows the electrification of isolated areas, in France and all over the world. Because with the increase in the price of fossil fuels and electricity, solar is something to please and orders are multiplying. “It is the result of energy costs and the desire to reduce its carbon footprint. With a solar generator, we manage to produce one kW five to seven times cheaper,” explains Frédéric Rohmer.
The director is pleased to have “in terms of innovation, mobility and high power, three steps ahead in the business”. Patent filed, Ecosun has thus supplied mobile solar power plants to major humanitarian organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, NATO, and many UNHCR refugee camps.
power and success
There are different mobile models depending on the needs. The “simplest”, the solar frame, will allow a site bungalow to be energy self-sufficient. There is also the trailer model and the container models, with their folding panels. “It can supply electricity to an entire village in Africa, that is to say a hundred huts, illustrates the director. Much more if it is connected with several other containers. »
If, until the energy crisis, Ecosun Innovations mainly delivered unit orders, now it is “more consulted on hundreds of units, sometimes on framework contracts for deliveries over three to five years”, congratulates Frédéric Rohmer.
As a result, the current assembly workshop, located near Colmar in the Haut-Rhin, finds itself cramped and the company plans to open a large factory dedicated to the assembly of solar generators in order to meet demand. . Larger, as long as there is a little sun anyway…