In some developing or emerging countries, some areas do not have traditional electrical supply networks. Governments thus entrust these areas to private operators so that they electrify them with the use of adapted means, these operators are then remunerated on the sale of energy: it is the management concession or delegation. Among these means, solar electricity is particularly adapted to zones with low density of population, but nevertheless important in term of number of inhabitants.

TENESOL‘s skills in services on the ground naturally led the group to become a pioneer of concession in not electrified zones.

Agreements made with Brazilian, South-African, and Moroccan governments etc... have resulted in the delegate management of millions of photovoltaic installations.

This concept is probably the most complex in our profession because it must take into account the whole of the energy problems that occur in remote locations.

The populations concerned are very often deprived and distant from each others. The expertise of the group and his partners consists in creating a project in which the government, the investors, the institutional financial backers, the users and the operators can find balanced solutions on technical, economic and financial levels.

In this context TENESOL undertakes the installation and service to the users during 15 to 20 years (comparable with "utility" for EDF, or a water sale company...).

In Morocco, TEMASOL, subsidiary of TENESOL, intervenes nowadays in 29 provinces and brings solar electricity to more than 58 000 customers.

Beyond the satisfaction of customers, the installation of these operations has very positive socio-economic impacts:

• Employment and training: this activity creates jobs, in areas where paid job offers are particularly rare. All the people employed by solar operators are trained in fields such as technical training, quality, customers’ services management...
  
  
• Keeping of the rural populations on their activity place: the boroughs are connected to the grid; the solar dedicated sectors are mainly inhabited by stockbreeders and farmers living on their ground. The conditions improvement brought by the rural electrification undoubtfully encourages these families to live there.
  

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