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Flacq

Current status, energy mix, organizations, suppliers, equipment, controls, reported specifications, and project updates—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations5
System facts22
Sources reviewed8
Evidence reviewed2026-07-20

The Flacq record is the grid-connected, behind-the-meter hybrid-energy system at the Flacq Coeur de Ville shopping center and Super U supermarket in Mauritius. DHYBRID's current project page describes 1.2 MWp of PV, 2,000 kVA of diesel generation, electrical storage of undisclosed size, chilled thermal storage, and its Universal Power Platform. Solar is self-consumed rather than exported in the current operating description, while central cooling and refrigeration create ice or cold storage from surplus daytime solar for use at night.

Research status
Operating commercial installation. The shopping center opened in June 2015, the official 1.146 MW PV application received a conditional permit in August 2015, and later accounts place formal plant inauguration in 2017. A 2023 environmental-award report still identified Super U Flacq's 1.146 MW PV system in use. DHYBRID continues to publish the installation as a reference project, but no audited post-commissioning production, diesel savings, battery availability, or storage capacity was located.
Historical classification
Community
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
-20.22578, 57.71193
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.
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Project delivery

Who was involved in Flacq?

5 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

Central Electricity Board

Mauritius electric utility that reviewed and conditionally permitted the 1.146 MW self-consumption/distributed-generation application and supplies the balance and backup from the grid. [4]

Organization

DHYBRID Power Systems

Turnkey EPC, system integrator, and supplier of the plant-wide hybrid controls; its current reference says installation took eight weeks. [3][5]

Organization

Flacq Coeur de Ville / Tsin Cepage Flacq Property Ltd

Shopping-center host and property entity associated with the Super U Flacq site. [5][4]

Organization

Super U

Customer and host supermarket [2]

Organization

Super U Flacq

Customer, supermarket anchor, and principal on-site energy user. [3][4][7]

System evidence

Energy mix, capacity, and specifications

Values can describe different project phases, generation sources, storage systems, or other components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

Solar PV
1.2 MWp; approximately 4,700 modules [2]
Diesel generation
2,000 kVA total [2]
PV inverters
70 units [2]
Reported annual generation
1,800 MWh [2]
Reported diesel savings
486,000 liters per year [2]
Solar PV rating
1.146 MWp in the government permit and commissioning account; rounded to 1.2 MWp in the current DHYBRID reference [4][6][3]
PV module count
Sources differ by phase and rounding: 4,504 at the June 2015 shopping-center opening, 4,584 in the 2017 plant-inauguration report, and approximately 4,700 on DHYBRID's current project page [5][6][3]
Diesel generation
2,000 kVA total; the 2015 account specifies two 1,000 kVA gensets [3][5]
PV inverters
70 units in DHYBRID's current as-represented configuration; an earlier project account described 75, so this likely reflects a design/as-built change or later consolidation [3][8]
Vendor-reported annual solar generation
1,800 MWh/year on the current DHYBRID reference; the 2017 inauguration article reported 1,179 MWh/year. Neither figure was independently audited in the sources reviewed. [3][6]
Vendor-reported annual fuel and emissions savings
DHYBRID's current page lists 486,000 L of diesel and 1.134 million kg of CO2 per year in its scope table, while its narrative rounds fuel savings to 500,000 L/year [3]
Project cost reported at inauguration
Approximately MUR 80 million, reported as about €2 million in 2017 [6]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

01

Microgrid control platform

DHYBRID — Universal Power Platform (UPP)

Coordinates PV, grid, diesel backup, electrical storage, and the site's chilled thermal storage. [2]

02

Microgrid control platform

DHYBRID — Universal Power Platform (UPP)

Coordinates PV, utility-grid supply, diesel backup, electrical storage, and chilled thermal storage. Earlier project-development reporting used DHYBRID's older HyGRID controller name. [3][8]

03

Chilled thermal storage

Model not publicly disclosed

Excess daytime PV is stored as ice or cold for the central air-conditioning and food-refrigeration systems and used at night; tank size, thermal capacity, and equipment vendor are not disclosed. [3]

04

Electrical energy storage

Model not publicly disclosed

DHYBRID lists an energy-storage system and says storage plus diesel can support full-load autonomy, but it does not disclose chemistry, manufacturer, power rating, or energy capacity. [3]

05

PV and diesel equipment

Model not publicly disclosed

The reviewed public sources disclose counts and aggregate ratings but not PV-module, inverter, or genset manufacturers and models. [3][5]

Technical record

Architecture, performance, and project updates

Concise technical facts, milestones, operating results, and later developments. Dated notes distinguish historical design claims from current evidence.

  • Grid relationship

    This is a behind-the-meter hybrid at a grid-connected shopping center, not an off-grid village microgrid. The CEB told Parliament that PV would cover only about 30% of site requirements and that the utility would supply the balance and backup. [4]

  • Export configuration

    The July 2014 application sought self-consumption and supply to the grid under the medium-scale distributed-generation/net-metering scheme. DHYBRID's current operating description says all self-generated energy is consumed on site with no export. The page preserves this as a dated application-versus-current-configuration distinction. [4][3]

  • Cooling as dispatchable load

    The UPP uses the refrigeration and central-air-conditioning plant as a controllable energy sink, shifting solar energy into nighttime cooling via ice/cold storage rather than relying only on electrical batteries. [3]

  • Capacity reconciliation

    The 1.146 MW government/commissioning value is the more precise permitted rating; 1.2 MW is a rounded commercial description. Likewise, module and inverter counts differ across planning, opening, inauguration, and current vendor sources and should not be combined as separate equipment additions. [4][5][6][3][8]

  • Evidence boundary

    A 2023 report confirms the PV installation remained part of Super U Flacq's operating energy-management program. Public sources do not provide current annual energy mix, measured availability, verified lifetime diesel savings, export data, or electrical/thermal storage ratings. [7][3]

Provenance

8 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
    Mauritius — Flacq project reference

    DHYBRID Power Systems · Primary source

  3. [3]
    Mauritius — Flacq project reference

    DHYBRID Power Systems · Primary source

  4. [4]
  5. [5]
  6. [6]
    Super U inaugure sa centrale photovoltaïque

    Eco Austral · Secondary research

  7. [7]
  8. [8]
    Hybrid diesel-photovoltaic project, Mauritius

    Engineering News · Secondary research

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