New ENGIE Harmony Project projects

Aligning individual and societal interests leads to harmonious progress around the world – an idea ENGIE believes in and a commitment it strives to fulfil. In the spirit of this idea, the company launched the ENGIE Harmony Project worldwide this spring. The concept is based mainly on a communication campaign that presents real projects of progressive collaboration between ENGIE teams and its partners. These include start-ups, local actors or artists, i.e. all those who share a common desire to act in favour of harmonious progress.

ENGIE ENERGY OBSERVER / First hydrogen ship to circumnavigate the world

ENERGY OBSERVER is a ship that sails around the world. It acts as a laboratory and tests new energy solutions in the marine environment, under extreme conditions. It is powered by renewable energy and hydrogen, which is produced on board directly from seawater. The campaign is more about a clean and autonomous energy system than a ship, foreshadowing the energy solutions of tomorrow. “This project is a scale model of tomorrow’s 100 percent renewable energy system. ENERGY OBSERVER shows that innovative solutions are now accessible to everyone, everywhere. It’s incredibly motivating,” says Caroline Hillegeer, Business Developer Hydrogen, ENGIE, evaluating the project. Complementary energy for a carbon-free future
Ensuring energy autonomy by combining hydrogen and renewable energies is a small revolution in everyday life, especially in the context of the development of hydrogen mobility. When used as a supplementary fuel in electric or gas vehicles, it increases their autonomy and reduces charging times without causing air or noise pollution.

ENGIE FAIRWIND / Medium Power Wind Turbines

Thanks to a partnership between ENGIE and Fairwind, an alternative to traditional wind turbines has been created in Belgium. Instead of large blades mounted high on a mast, small blades rotate around a vertical axis. This mechanism allows the wind to be captured at low altitudes and produce green electricity with a reduced carbon footprint and reduced noise levels. The solution responds to the needs of farms, small and medium sized businesses, while adhering to CO2 emission limits. Therefore, ENGIE Fairwind plans to install up to 100 such plants in Belgium by 2020. “Small wind turbines are another option in our range of decentralised solutions. They are currently combined with solar panels and charging stations for electric vehicles. Tomorrow they will be combined with batteries! “ comments François Boisseleau, B2B & Green Mobility Manager, ENGIE, enthusiastically about the innovation.

ENGIE EVBOX / Intelligent electric mobility

The City of Rotterdam is committed to reducing air pollution, road traffic and the resulting noise nuisance. To achieve this, it has launched a comprehensive electric mobility programme and plans to create an extensive network of charging stations for local residents and the city’s fleet. By 2020, it plans to connect up to 1 800 charging stations in areas where users need them most. ENGIE and EVBox have been entrusted with this mission to improve air quality in a sustainable way. Noise and pollution, two of the most serious problems facing large urban areas, are being tackled in a sophisticated way by the City of Rotterdam. It has invited the residents themselves to participate, who can select the locations for EVBox charging stations via a dedicated platform. This solution should facilitate electric mobility and allow residents to benefit from a network of charging points close to their home, work, train station, car park or car-sharing point. In addition, the city council can also monitor charging cycles and manage the terminals’ energy consumption through embedded SIM cards. “We have already installed more than 55,000 charging stations around the world. By 2025, we want to set up one million of them,” says Souleymane Cissé, Business Development Representative, EVBox, of the company’s ambitious plan.

ENGIE NITERÓI / Solution Livin’

The city of Niterói, located close to Rio, Brazil, faces a common challenge of booming metropolitan areas: traffic congestion. To improve traffic flow and ensure a better quality of life for its residents, the city has launched an ambitious programme of intelligent, automated and controlled real-time urban traffic management based on Livin’, a solution developed by ENGIE that brings Smart Cities to life.

“In Niteroi, cameras capture vehicles stopped at traffic lights. The longer the line of vehicles at the intersection, the longer the green light stays on! Within ENGIE, this unique project has earned a world first,” says Médéric de la Houssaye, Engineer & Project Manager, ENGIE Brazil. Urban Traffic Regulation
Urban traffic management is a major challenge and usually a major problem for metropolitan areas. In Niterói, more than 200 smart cameras continuously monitor the number of vehicles in the ten most congested areas of the city. This information is relayed in real time to 190 traffic light controllers, who can adjust the duration of traffic lights to the actual traffic. This reduces journey times while reducing fuel consumption, pollutant emissions and the risk of accidents. By 2050, 67% of the world’s population will live in cities, so the challenge of reconciling urban development with the preservation of its energy resources is very topical, even crucial.

IMAGINATIVE BUILDERS

Behind these extraordinary projects are women and men working together to create a better world for us all. Their strength lies in working together and combining their expertise. They have the drive to lead a collective effort for the benefit of all. That’s what Imaginative Builders are like. Watch all the films from the ENGIE HARMONY PROJECT campaign: https://harmonyproject.engie.com/en/

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