In northwest France, the lle-et-Vilaine council is celebrating 35 years of cooperation with the Mopti region of Mali. This partnership has supported a wide range of projects, designed to improve living conditions for Malian people. This year has seen the rollout of a new project called TREZOR for Tranquillité en Zones Rurales (peace of mind […]
Building on its successful involvement in the ‘Viaducto de la Paz’ project, France-based company Fonroche is pursuing its expansion in Colombia with another ecofriendly public lighting solution — this time for the new Alto Magdalena highway project. Hundreds of solar streetlights are being installed at strategic locations along the route to make driving safer and […]
Sierra Leone is a country on Africa’s Atlantic coast, bordered by Guinea to the north and Liberia to the southeast. This region of sub-Saharan Africa famously has the lowest household electrification rate in the world. Sierra Leone has a population of nearly 8 million, yet only 13% have electricity. Even the lucky few have to put […]
Join us today as we journey to Mayotte, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and the coast of Mozambique. Mayotte is an overseas French-administrated territory and comprises a main island, Grande-Terre, and a smaller island, Petite-Terre. Our local partner talks enthusiastically about how Fonroche Lighting off-grid solar solutions manufactured in France are lighting […]
Solar street lighting for Yaoundé Yaoundé’s historic district lit by solar In the Cameroon capital Yaoundé, work was carried out late last year to repair and improve the city’s historic centre. As part of this project, off-grid solar streetlights were installed on 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) of road to improve safety and security in the Etam […]
The City of Beaconsfield on the Island of Montreal, Canada, is recognized for its commitment to sustainable development and has been chosen to implement a roadmap for the transition to a smart energy community. Quite natural, then, that it should ask Fonroche to provide a lighting solution for its train station car park. Beaconsfield turns […]
NGO Mad’Energie has completed a project to bring electricity to a junior high school in remote Madagascar. Located in the town of Tsarafaritra — deep in the island’s interior — the building was in a poor state of repair and unsafe for pupils. The France-based NGO installed a PV module to provide electricity for the […]
Benin – another global win for Fonroche Lighting Fonroche to deliver 15,000 solar streetlights in Benin Fonroche Lighting has started 2019 by winning Benin’s international competition for the installation of 15,000 off-grid solar streetlights. It’s all part of the country’s ‘Asphalting’ project to modernize and upgrade public lighting for 10 cities, including Cotonou and Porto-Novo. […]
Known as “the green lungs of the city”, Santiago Metropolitan Park, or ‘Parquemet’, covers more than 700 hectares (1,730 acres) of parkland and is home to countless cultural and sports activities. Public lighting is vital to ensure that local inhabitants, tourists and motorists can get around the park safely. As part of its commitment to […]
The port city of Annaba in northeast Algeria is famed for its Mediterranean beaches and is hugely popular with tourists. The beautiful azure-blue coastline is reached from the city via an 8 km (5 mi) road, which until now has remained unlit! The city authorities recently called on Fonroche for a lighting project to improve […]
