Since January 2020, IED has been working as prime contractor with Expertise France on the ECLER Ivoire project, which aims to electrify 16 isolated villages in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.

In September  2020, the first works were launched for the building and implementation of the networks as well as the civil engineering works of the power plants.

By the end of January 2021, the buildings of the production plants in the Tiassale area were ready to receive their equipment.

Today a new stage was reached :  the installation of the first photovoltaic fields !  

Despite Covid-19 restrictions, IED journeys to its intervention countries have led to a sharp reduction in  IED displacement, have resulted in the emission of  60 tonnes of CO2 for the year 2020.

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The projects supported this year are in two new IED intervention countries:

• Myanmar Stoves Campaign - 30T:

The Improved Stoves Campaign in Myanmar, a program of the Soneva Foundation, is the first Gold Standard Certified Carbon Project in Myanmar. Rural families in Myanmar spend more than 40% of their income - or the equivalent in time - when buying or collecting and cutting wood to feed the stoves for cooking.

Here, each cooker reduces wood consumption by at least 50%, which both reduces the pressure on forests and household spending on fuel. Air pollution is reduced by 80%, which also improves the health and safety of the community as a whole. Carbon emissions are reduced by 60 % equivalent to 4 tonnes per year per stove.

• Qori Q'oncha Improved Cookstoves in Peru - 30 T:

The MICROSOL initiative,"Qori Q'oncha - Diffusion of Improved Cooking Homes Program in Peru", coordinates various distribution of stoves in Peru. Improved cooking stoves (ICS)  are built with local materials by local residents. Each new stove emits less greenhouse gases (GHGs) than the original stove, which helps reduce global emissions.

This project helps vulnerable families in rural areas access energy and better cooking solutions for their health, less costly to manage and require less firewood (-39%).

The Gold Standard : https://www.goldstandard.org/

With the help of its local partner GEOSYSTEMS and the support of the Ministry of Energy and Hydraulics (MEH), IED completed in January 2021 a survey campaign on energy consumption among households and socio-economic infrastructure in Madagascar as part of the Geospatial Study Project of the Electrification  of the PAGOSE programme funded by the World Bank.

The survey, which targeted more than 2,000 end-users of electricity in electrified villages (fokontany) and unconnected households, across the country, is intended to provide accurate rural demand modelling based on the consumption habits of end-users and to assess households' ability to pay in order to better scale electrification works (power lines, mini-solar power plants, biomass or hydro) and optimize access to electricity for the most vulnerable populations.

The IED Group, through its subsidiary IED-Invest, has been developing and operating biomass power plants in Cambodia since 2011. In collaboration with local manufacturers, IED has developed simple and robust small-power gasification systems (approximately 200 kW per unit).

From this experience, IED is a partner in the Agrogazelec project carried out by the association Urja  Nishati,  Nitidae and CIRAD. This project is born from the identification of many biomass potentials at the levels of agribusinesses in Africa, whose amount of waste to be reclaimed would supply small and medium power plants (200 kW to 2 MW). In particular, cashew processing units are confronted with the hulls waste management.

Funded by the French Global Environment Fund (FFEM), this project aims to develop a viable industrial solution and suitable assemblies for the development of such units.

In the prospect to transferring operational gas-based manufacturing and exploitation know-how to Cambodia, IED conducted a series of tests on a test platform set up at one of these plants in Cambodia between August and December 2020. The objective was to validate the adaptions to be brought (equipment and operating methods) to allow to operate at the cashew hull.

In addition, the implementation of an instrumentation plan has led to a better understanding of gasification processes, and to identify avenues for improvement.  As a result of these tests, the modifications to the gasogen led to stable operation, improved efficiency and better quality gas production.

The last phase of the trial focused on improving gas treatment to limit the amount of effluent to be treated. Considering the encouraging results at the pilot scale, work is currently underway to build equipment to treat all the gas, which will be tested in the coming months.

At the end of these tests, the configuration of the gasification systems to be deployed in Africa will be validated in order to allow the start of construction of the first pilot units.