Le lundi 27 janvier 2025, la National Investment Bank (BNI), a public banking institution in the State of Côte d'Ivoire, launched a project in Abidjan for installing solar panels with a capacity of 50 to 80 kilowatts peak. Its aim is to reduce its carbon footprint.

The project will allow electricity savings of the order of 50 to 80%, depending on the site. According to the director general of the state bank, Youssouf Fadiga “this project is in line with the vision of our institution, which is to become a citizen bank, operating with a low carbon impact and to promote sustainable activities for future generations”. According to him, this solar project was deployed on three pilot sites, namely the site of the integrated center in Cocody (Abidjan), that of Yamoussoukro, as well as one of the two sites in Bouaké. Selon Fadiga, “ces pilot sites have been chosen among those that consume the most electricity, in order to maximize the impact of this initiative.” For his part, the project promoter, Serge Coulibaly, explained that these solar systems will be integrated into the energy mix, thus making it possible to produce solar energy used directly by the sites, while complementing this consumption with the energy provided by the CIE, in an intelligent way and in real time thanks to a system that is transparent to