Integrating Climate into our Strategy - 29 Preparing the Solar Energy of the Future To gradually build an innovative offering to help customers optimize their consumption, SunPower has made several acquisitions in the energy management and storage sectors. As part of this “Smart Energy” strategy, it recently introduced a new service that includes onsite solar energy production for facility needs and is also planning to expand into smart energy management, storage and distribution to the grid. ENERGY STORAGE: TOTAL PLANS TO ACQUIRE SAFT “As part of Total, Saft will spearhead our growth in the electricity storage sector,” commented Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total. “The acquisition of Saft is fully aligned with our ambition of growing in renewable energies and electricity, a process initiated in 2011 with the acquisition of SunPower. Saft is an industrial flagship recognized globally for its technological know-how. It develops innovative, competitive solutions for its customers. Saft will allow us to add electricity storage solutions to our portfolio, necessary to the future growth of renewable energies.” Solar Solutions for Access to Energy Our ambition is to provide access to energy to 25 million people in Africa by 2020 People Reached by Our Access To Energy Program Million people 30 20 10 0 Africa Rest of the World After more than a decade of examining ways to provide access to energy in our host countries, in 2011 we launched a program to market distributed solar solutions. Against a backdrop of fast-paced energy demand in emerging economies, these solutions meet the needs of communities with little or no access to the grid. The use of a renewable, modern and reliable source of energy also avoids emissions associated with the use of the traditional energy sources that it is replacing. At the end of 2015, the Awango by Total range of solar solutions for lighting and cell phone charging was available in over 30 countries in Africa and in Asia, providing access to electricity to more than 6 million people. Based on a social business model, i.e. one that both addresses a social problem and is financially self-sustainable, we continue to expand our range of products by testing broader energy services with the help of multiple partnerships with large multinational institutions and small local businesses alike. For example, we are looking at products that make it possible to use several sources of light, fans and televisions, clean cooking options, new distribution models and financing solutions such as “pay as you go” schemes.