Merengue Solar Minifarm
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https://goparity.com/projects/merengue-solar-minifarm-451-7d2fe

Merengue Solar Minifarm

Empowering communities with solar energy.
Resumo do investimento
Categoria de impacto
Energia sustentável
Tipo de investimento
Empréstimo
Juro anual
9.25
%
Prazo
120
meses
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Descrição
Impacto
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Promotor

Solenium, is a Colombian company dedicated to advancing global sustainability through the development of new energy technologies. Over the past year and a half, Solenium has shifted its focus to distributed generation projects and aims to lead this market in Colombia. 

Having already developed over 21.8 MWp, Solenium is ready to take the next step and expand its purpose. The purpose of this funding campaign is to finance the engineering, permits, and initial civil works for Solenium's first-owned solar Minifarm. This initiative will enable the promoter to expand its portfolio and increase its positive impact on the communities it serves.

The Minifarm is located in Valledupar in Colombia and will have an annual generation of over 2,390 MWh of clean energy, which is equivalent to powering more than 1,250 homes across 2 communities. The projects developed by Solenuim incorporate initiatives focusing on several dimensions such as:

  • Women's Inclusion - promoting gender diversity by providing equal opportunities for women in the workforce.
  • Educational Coworking - hosting educational spaces for children and youth from neighboring communities at the Minifarms.
  • Agrovoltaic Projects - integrating solar energy with agriculture, benefiting local farmers.
  • Local Labor Empowerment - providing training and employment opportunities locally to contribute to community development.

This current campaign will finance the phase 1 of the minifarm as part of a 3-phase plan divided into a 3 campaign funding plan worth 840.000€. The remaining amount will be funded in two future campaings with the Goparity comunity worth 252.000€, each.

Qual é o impacto?

Direct 

  • Contribution to the decarbonisation of Colombia, avoiding CO2 emissions: With a total production of clean energy of over 2408 MWh per year, the solar plant will avoid the emission of about 371 tonnes of CO2 per year. This is equivalent to the CO2 absorption of 16.868 trees.

This campaign will fund one third of the total installation, therefore it will contribute to the generation of over 803 MWh of clean energy per year, avoiding the emission of 123,7 tonnes of CO2 yearly. This is the equivalent to the CO2 absorption of 5.622 trees.

  • Sustainable and resilient food production systems: Solenium implements an agrivoltaics solution – in which the photovoltaic panels coexist with agricultural activity in the same land. The promoter partners with a productive actor – either a production or farmers’ association or an independent smallholder farmer – who will manage and work the land and receive the total income from its harvests. Through an agreement of land use conditions, Solenium grants the partner free access to the land and technical knowledge assistance for all steps of the production, from planning to harvesting crops and for sales’ channels and strategies of the products. This ensures the implementation of clean and efficient food production systems and the knowledge transfer to the local communities. 

At the Merengue installation, the productive partner is planning the cultivation of Baby Watermelons in two hectares of land, in a team of around seven people.

  • Jobs creation: for the installation of the Minifarms around 15 temporary and local jobs are created, and around 20% of those work contracts are renovated for other minifarms installations planned in the same region. 

Indirect

  • Promoting sustainable business: the project developed for Solenium is an example of the applicability of solar power integrated with agricultural solutions and inserted within a community’s needs, an important step towards sustainability for businesses in Colombia. Furthermore, Solenium is a certified BCorp in Colombia, which means they reach a set of standards in its practices towards customers, employees, governance and environment.
  • Community engagement and local development: This funding positively affects two communities in Colombia – the rural areas of the cities of La Paz and Valledupar. Solenium builds educational centres to provide training to schools, companies, and the general population. These centres are spaces inside the Minifarms containing computers and learning and experimental materials for the community’s children and youth to learn about technology, solar energy and beyond.

Indicadores de impacto

123702
Kg
CO2 avoided per year
803259
KWh
clean energy
5
jobs
created by our projects
1
hectars
of sustainable water and land management

Contribuição para os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Sobre o promotor

About
Solenium

A Solenium é uma B Corp fundada em 2016 com a missão de promover novas tecnologias energéticas para combater as alterações climáticas e preservar o futuro do nosso planeta. O percurso da empresa começou quando os seus três fundadores, especialistas em energias renováveis, desenvolvimento de tecnologia para o sector energético e finanças, reconheceram o potencial da Colômbia para liderar a adoção de soluções de energia limpa. Os fundadores, que se conheceram na universidade, foram inspirados pela sua experiência colectiva e pela visão partilhada de alavancar a tecnologia para enfrentar desafios ambientais. Esta convicção solidificou-se quando dois deles representaram a Colômbia numa competição internacional de eficiência naval na Suíça, vencendo a competição e apercebendo-se da necessidade de inovações nacionais para beneficiar tanto a Colômbia como a comunidade global.

O objetivo global da Solenium vai para além dos projectos individuais; o promotor dedica-se a a contribuir para avanços tecnológicos em energias renováveis de forma a promover um futuro mais limpo e mais sustentável. O mais recente foco estratégico da empresa em Miniquintas solares sublinha o seu compromisso de liderar o sector da energia distribuída na Colômbia.

As conquistas da Solenium incluem a obtenção de mais de cinco subsídios para inovação, a obtenção da certificação B Corporation e o desenvolvimento de um monitor de painéis solares patenteado que aumenta a geração de energia em aproximadamente 15%. Estes feitos sublinham o compromisso da Solenium com a inovação e a sustentabilidade. A Solenium conta agora com equipa multidisciplinar de mais de 80 profissionais.

A empresa tem vários marcos pioneiros no panorama energético da Colômbia, como ter sido a primeira empresa do país a legalizar uma casa capaz de vender energia excedente à rede. Além disso, a Solenium iniciou o primeiro projeto-piloto de hidrogénio H2 na Colômbia, marcando um passo significativo na exploração de fontes de energia alternativas. Finalmente, a Solenium liderou o desenvolvimento do primeiro projeto de geração distribuída com tecnologia de seguidores solares, esta iniciativa foi concretizada com a entrada em vigor do regulamento Creg 147.

Website do promotor

https://solenium.co/

Equipa

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Progresso da campanha

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do objetivo

33600000

Mínimo

33600000

Objetivo

33600000

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Project location
Valledupar, Cesar
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