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Schneider Electric announced the launch of its Villaya Flex microgrid solution at the Alliance for Rural Electrification Energy Access Investment Forum 2024, which took place in Lagos, Nigeria on May 21-23, 2024. The Forum brought together private and public sector actors with the objective to help expand access to energy, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
The International Energy Agency estimates that 756 million people globally live without electricity, hindering economic and human development. Ensuring access to clean and affordable energy is one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and particularly relevant to sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 80 percent of people live without access to electricity.
Villaya Flex is a packaged microgrid solution that helps to maximize clean energy while reducing pollution from genset usage. It was specially designed for communities, facilitating the journey toward decarbonized, independent electricity while helping to meet today's energy challenges. The solution can be sized, ordered, commissioned, operated, and maintained more easily with higher levels of battery storage scalability. It includes the following components:
An all-in-one 50/100 kVA bidirectional hybrid power conversion unit.
Battery storage, helping to capture and store onsite generation to further drive resilience, sustainability, and efficiency.
An energy control center, providing a centralized panel to manage multiple energy sources into an intelligent power management system.
A more advanced and cyber secure easier-to-use digital monitoring platform, which includes:
EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor (energy production management)
EcoStruxure Energy Access Expert (demand-side management)
EcoStruxure Microgrid Build (system design simplification)
At the event, Schneider Electric featured a range of solutions to help expand energy access, and spoke on key topics, such as catalyzing investments for renewable electrification, decentralizing the renewable energy sector, and accelerating the clean energy transition across sub-Saharan Africa.