Our history
2008
CNIM, a French industrial engineering contractor and equipment manufacturer based in La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var, France), is entering the renewable energy market and is setting up its Solar Division.
2010
CNIM’s Solar Division designs and manufactures a concentrated solar module pilot using Fresnel technology at its industrial site in La Seyne-sur-Mer.
2012
CNIM is the winner of the call for tenders launched in 2011 by the Commission de Régulation de l’Energie (CRE) for its project to build and operate a concentrated thermodynamic solar power plant in Llo in the Pyrénées-Orientales (France). Entirely financed by its own funds, this project requires the search for financial resources.
2013
Creation of the ELLO project company – in which CNIM has a majority stake – to raise funds.
2015
Creation of SUNCNIM by CNIM and the Bpifrance “Société de Projets Industriels” fund. SUNCNIM will build and operate the solar power plant on behalf of ELLO.
2016
ELLO closes the financing for the construction of the Llo concentrated solar power plant with a banking pool. ELLO’s shareholders are SUNCNIM and the Banque des Territoires in equal parts. The construction of the plant starts on 12 September.
2019
The plant starts producing electricity on the national grid on 14 May 2019 and is inaugurated on 20 September 2019.
2023
ELLO is taken over by its management team and now operates the solar power plant.
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