Pacific islands

French Polynesia is the most recent tropical archipelago on which our teams have introduced our innovative concepts aimed at island nations. It is a natural setting that is both welcoming and particularly demanding from a visual perspective for our agrivoltaic farms combining renewable energy production and local farming production, given the beauty of the sites on which our projects are integrated and the lack of available land on these various islands. 

Initiated in 2019, our approach in terms of sensitizing local players and seeking partners materialized in 2020 and 2021, when we successfully won three communal tenders in the Leeward Islands, each time providing opportunities for projects organized in the form of cyclone-proof agrisolar greenhouses. This concept provides a perfect answer to communities’ expectations regarding the challenges they are exposed to. 

But beyond these initial successes, the Akuo teams’ contribution in French Polynesia was to demonstrate the relevance and sturdiness of renewable solutions scaled to these small autonomous power grids, truly launching the archipelago’s energy transition. 

On two of these three solar farms, Akuo made the combination of renewable production means and appropriate storage solutions both possible and credible in order to provide these island networks with stability and services when intermittent renewable energy sources are introduced. Akuo is particularly proud to be able to play this recognized role of a pioneer and precursor in winning people over to French Polynesia’s sustainable development challenges.