Description du projet
Les petites exploitations agricoles se tournent vers l’énergie solaire pour arroser leurs cultures
L’irrigation est essentielle pour assurer une production agricole efficace. Pourtant, dans le monde, 80 % des zones cultivées n’ont pas accès à l’irrigation en raison des lacunes des infrastructures et du réseau. Les pompes d’irrigation conventionnelles, conçues pour une irrigation intensive, sont volumineuses et lourdes. Elles s’avèrent inadaptées aux zones reculées qui ne sont pas raccordées au réseau et où les carburants ne sont pas toujours disponibles. C’est dans ce contexte que le projet sunlight2.0 financé par l’UE, va mettre sur le marché une pompe à eau solaire abordable, portable, très efficace et facile à utiliser. Elle fonctionne à l’énergie solaire et facilite l’irrigation des sites inaccessibles, en s’affranchissant des dépenses liées aux carburants ou à l’électricité et en réduisant les coûts de transport ainsi que les émissions de gaz à effet de serre.
Objectif
Ennos is a Swiss company founded in 2006 as a spin-off of Berne University of Applied Sciences under the lead of Prof Dr. Andrea Vezzini, who has a long track record in solar energy and motor drive systems. We are an interdisciplinary team of experienced engineers and marketing experts, who have dedicated our efforts to develop and demonstrate sunlight2.0 a second generation of highly efficient, portable solar-powered irrigation pumps targeted for smallholders in isolated rural areas.
There are more than 570 million farms in the world, most of them being located in distant rural areas. Out of those farms, about 84% are smaller than 2 ha. Nowadays, bigger crop areas have to be put under irrigation to increase productivity due to a growing population that has to be fed. This implies a growing need for energy and water resources. Besides, 16% of the global population did not have access to electricity in 2016, mainly in rural areas where the majority of smallholders are located. Therefore, smallholder farmers need competitive solutions, economically affordable and efficient and that enable them to increase their profits.
sunlight2.0 is a portable and user friendly pump which is highly efficient and affordable to smallholders. sunlight2.0 has almost no maintenance costs and allows farmers to save the cost of diesel or electricity producing zero emissions. During Phase 2 project we expect to increase the efficiency of the pump, reduce weight and optimize production costs compared to our previous sunlight1.0 product. Completion of Phase 2 project and will require €1 million investment, that will provide an estimated ROI of 5.7 by 2025.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energy
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringirrigation
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.3. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy Main Programme
- H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
2560 NIDAU
Suisse
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.