Other major projects are located in Dubai with the customer DEWA (in charge of water and electricity in the Emirate):
Also in the UAE, the EDF group has sought to establish a long-term relationship with Nawah, the operator of the Barakah nuclear plant and subsidiary of Émirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC). In 2018, EDF and Nawah signed a long-term master agreement under which EDF will assist Nawah with the operation and maintenance of the Barakah plant through various services such as safety, radiation protection, fuel cycle management and environmental monitoring. A second agreement was signed in June 2021 between Framatome and Nawah for the provision of maintenance services.
Another major engineering consultancy project for the customer Kahramaa (water and electricity in Qatar) is currently being conducted in Doha, along with the construction of substations and high-voltage power line networks. Several projects of high technical and strategic value including the development of renewable energies and the improvement of the performance of the transmission network have been won and are ongoing with this customer.
The major projects in Saudi Arabia include the following:
EDF has had operations in Israel since 2010 through its subsidiary EDF Renewables. At end 2021, it operates solar power projects connected to the grid with total gross capacity of 425MW, currently has 104MW under construction. The subsidiary is preparing for the construction in 2022-2023 of around 70MW of floating photovoltaic projects, 30MW of solar roofs, 225MW of ground-mounted photovoltaic projects associated with storage and 98MW of wind projects. These projects have been won through tenders organised by the State or by local authorities. Furthermore, EDF Hydro’s Hydraulic engineering centre supplies services to the first Israeli project for the storage of electricity through pumping, on Mount Gilboa.
The EDF group has more than twenty years’ experience in off-grid power provision in Africa via companies created for that purpose based on territorial concessions. Since 2017, the EDF group has joined forces with innovative start-ups to supply power and services to customers in rural areas and on urban outskirts in line with their income and needs. Solutions include supplying power to central grids, installing mini-grids and providing solar power kits.
Such services enable more than 1.5 million people in South Africa, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Zambia and Togo to light and power their low- consumption household appliances such as a television or a radio, or to recharge their mobile phones. Customers in Kenya and Togo can also buy solar-powered water pumps and thereby significantly improve their crop yields.
The EDF group, via EDF Pulse Holding with a 17% stake, teamed up with investment firm Meridiam to create NEoT Offgrid Africa with the aim of contributing to financing energy supply and services solutions.
EDF International holds a 50% stake in Bboxx Capital Togo. The company undertakes the sale, installation and maintenance of solar kits for rural households in Togo. In addition to the sale of Solar home systems, a partnership for the deployment of solar pumps was set up in 2020 with Kenyan company SunCulture and the Togo government.
In South Africa, the KES (Kukhanya Energy Services) company, created in 2002, is 50% owned by EDF International, 15% by the local operator, Calulo, and 35% by Total. It initially developed its business through photovoltaic kits in Kwazulu-Natal, and then extended its activities into the Eastern Cape region.
Since July 2018, EDF group has been contributing to the development of Kenyan company SunCulture to support the sale, installation, and maintenance of solar pumps for rural households, mainly in Kenya. EDF assists SunCulture with its international development through a 16.1% stake held by EDF International in Savant Group, the parent company of SunCulture.
In 2020, EDF International took out a stake in Bboxx Kenya (via a 38.5% stake in EDF Bboxx Kenya, which owns 60% of Bboxx Kenya). The company carries out the sale, installation, and maintenance services of solar kits in rural households in Kenya.
In order to develop its offer in mini-grids, in 2020 EDF International took out a 12% stake in Standard Micro Grid Initiatives Limited, a start-up identified through the “EDF Pulse Africa” competition, which develops and installs mini-grids using a solution with standardised containers and smart meters, enabling the sale of energy blocks on demand.
ZECI, created in October 2016, ensures the installation and maintenance of solar kits intended for households in rural areas and on urban outskirts. In June 2021, Zola Electric withdrawn from the company’s capital. At the end of December 2021, a new shareholder partner, Meridiam, entered the capital of ZECI, 50/50 with EDF International.
Zola Electric, the Ghanaian company CH Group and EDF International decided to create ZEGHA, in which they respectively hold a 50%, 20% and 30% stake. The pilot phase linked to the start of the company was launched in December 2017 on the Ivorian model.
