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A Solar-Powered Cold Room To Help Fishing Ports Adapt To Climate Change-1261

The document discusses a project to build a solar-powered cold room in the fishing port of Fass Boye in Senegal to help the port adapt to climate change by storing fish and reducing losses. The cold room will be powered by solar energy and use an innovative eutectic storage system to store cold during the day for release at night. The project aims to test the technical operation of the cold room and its impacts on the local community and fishing industry.

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A Solar-Powered Cold Room To Help Fishing Ports Adapt To Climate Change-1261

The document discusses a project to build a solar-powered cold room in the fishing port of Fass Boye in Senegal to help the port adapt to climate change by storing fish and reducing losses. The cold room will be powered by solar energy and use an innovative eutectic storage system to store cold during the day for release at night. The project aims to test the technical operation of the cold room and its impacts on the local community and fishing industry.

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SÉNÉGAL

A solar-powered cold room to help


fishing ports adapt to climate
change

Didier Simon, FFEM

An activity essential to socio-economic balance in Senegal, fishing suffers the full impact of climate change. With the support of
the FFEM, Valorem plans to test out a solar-powered cold room solution in the port of Fass Boye, which currently lacks
refrigeration facilities.

CONTEXTE ET OBJECTIFS
02/09/2019 31/12/2020
With 718 km of coastline and 600,000 people employed in the
Project start Project end
fishing sector, Senegal remains highly dependent on fishing date date
resources. Under the effects of climate change, potential
catches may see significant decline, aggravating the 24/12/2018
North/South political inequalities and threatening the Project grant
date
population’s food security. Small fishing ports are particularly
susceptible to these changes. Dakar
Location
Despite its vitality, the port of Fass Boye is currently lacking
any means of storage, meaning that wholesalers have to go to Climate change , Coastal and
fetch ice every day. The development of an autonomous solar- high seas management
powered cold room will enable fish to be better stored thus sector(s)
limiting losses, while also reducing reliance on chemical
batteries. The project benefits from FFEM aid via the Private subvention, FISP-Climat
Sector Innovation Facility (FISP). Financing Tool(s)

283 500 EUR


Amount of the program
DESCRIPTION Including FFEM funding

There are three components to the project: 78 900 EUR


Amount of FFEM funding
1. Commissioning a solar-powered cold room in the port of
Fass Boye to store fish and testing its technical operation, 2 YEARS
following completion of an external study. Duration of funding
2. Defining how the facility's governance and
Valorem
management will work to help enhance its usage,
Beneficiaries
supporting stakeholders’ buy-in and identifying impacts.
3. Evaluating the added value of this equipment drawing ANER
on user feedback and audits, in order to pursue roll-out at a Cofinanceur(s)
larger scale.
French Ministry of Economy and
Finance
Institution responsible
IMPACTS

Minimising transport movements, ice consumption and


reliance on fossil fuels through the development of a
solar-powered solution.
Preservation of fishing resources and reduction of waste.
Creation of local employment for management and
security at the pilot cold room (pilot).
Securing production resources and revenues of fish
wholesalers

EXEMPLARY AND INNOVATIVE CHARACTERISTIC

The experimental CryoSolar project, supported by the FFEM via


the FISP-Climat facility, is a demonstrator for a solar-powered
cold room. This technical innovation relies on the use of a
eutectic storage system, which is able to store the cold
generated by solar energy in the day for release at night. This
makes it possible to stop using electrochemical batteries,
which are less sustainable and more polluting. The results of
this experiment will be shared with all stakeholders. They will
then be able to optimise management and governance with a
view to larger-scale deployment.

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