Foundation Rural Energy Services

As a pionier in rural electrification FRES likes to share its lessons learned and best practices with partners in the sector. With still over 500 million people lacking access to energy in rural Africa, we need to join forces.

FRES Guiné-Bissau invited Alfredo Pais of TESE to Contuboel to show how we manage and operate our minigrid that currently serves 450 customers, a school and a clinic in the village.

TESE is a major player in rural electrification in Guinea-Bissau with a trackrecord of realizing minigrids in the country and plans to add more.

The Contuboel minigrid is operational since 2017 but shines as if it was put in service yesterday.

Our well trained local team, lead by our minigrid manager Paulo Bidefa, takes care of the daily maintenance and ensures that our customers can rely on reliable access to renewable energy now and in the future.

The Contuboel minigrid was realized with support of EuropeAid, and the OPEC Fund.

An exciting meeting this morning with the food, water and energy expert Eléonore Belemlilga of the recently opened Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Ouagadougou.

We discussed leveraging synergies between FRES as renewable energy provider in Burkina Faso and projects supported by the embassy promoting sustainable agriculture, fish farming, forestry and private sector development.

Our Young Expert Programmes engineer DAVOU Lassina presented the design for two solar powered agroprocessing platforms FRES is currently developing with Agriterra for women cooperatives in Burkina Faso.

FRES Yeelen Ba partners with UN Capital Development Fund to develop a solar powered agroprocessing platform for women farmers in Kouakoulé, Burkina Faso.

Today we met in Ouagadougou to tap into UNCDF’s expertise in women empowerment, clean cooking and microfinancing, to inform the design of the platform that will be operational mid-2022.

FRES partners with Agriterra on decarbonizing farmer cooperatives by introducing solar electricity for their agroproduction activities.

Today we discussed in Ouagadougou the progress of two solar powered agro platforms currently under development in Burkina Faso to be operational mid-2022.

From this season onwards, the women cooperatives in two Malian villages benefit from solar water pumping and irrrigation realized by Yeelen Kura (FRES Mali)

FRES (Foundation Rural Energy Services) on LinkedIn: #water #solar #energy The women cooperatives in Nimbougou and Diaramana started preparing their lands to grow maize. From this season onwards they will benefit from solar powered...