[PARTNER ARTICLE] SUEZ is accelerating the innovation of its decentralized solutions to improve access to essential services in Africa. More than a compact unit, easy to install in remote areas, the UCD® Smart Village is a fully autonomous system designed by the French group SUEZ to facilitate access to drinking water and renewable energy, two basic services whose access remains a challenge in rural Africa. This set of standardized and containerized units is equipped with a drinking water production unit and an evolving biogas production system.
As some rural areas in Africa do not yet have access to electricity, the drinking water production unit equipped with an autonomous solar system (Solar Impulse1 certified) guarantees the station’s electricity supply. The installation also has surface water pumping equipment, a compact treatment unit, a tank for storing drinking water, as…
Drinking water, solar energy, biogas…the innovation of the SUEZ UCD Smart Village
