ENERGY TRANSITION
The Group’s businesses support the acceleration of the energy transition and, in particular, electrification. The shift to electricity is giving rise to a substantial need for investment in energy production, transmission, distribution and storage, while also demanding higher levels of network availability and stability.
In Sokhoro, Côte d’Ivoire,
VINCI Energies signed a contract in 2025 to build a solar plant with a capacity of 52 MWp in Ferkessédougou for an independent power producer. With its 73,000 solar panels, it will be the country’s largest photovoltaic plant developed by a private player. The plant will produce nearly 90 GWh of clean electricity annually, enough to meet the needs of more than 370,000 people, thereby contributing to the energy independence of Côte d’Ivoire.
At a railway maintenance base in Clérac (western France) run by MESEA, which operates the South Europe Atlantic high-speed rail line between Tours and Bordeaux, SunMind (VINCI Concessions) installed a solar canopy plant covering the facility’s car parks and storage areas. Featuring 654 low-carbon photovoltaic panels, it has a capacity of 500 kWp and can produce up to 570 MWh per year. Since its commissioning in April 2025, all of the power produced has been fed into the grid. Two more solar power plants are to be built at MESEA railway maintenance facilities in Nouâtre (west-central France) and in Villognon (western France) in 2026. With capacities of 2.6 MWp and 750 kWp, respectively, they will bring the total installed capacity of the three sites to 3.85 MWp.