A Franco-Senegalese partnership to digitalise electricity connection management and network planning in Senegal through an all-in-one platform and a digital twin of the distribution network.

Project led by

The Société nationale d’électricité du Sénégal (Senelec), in partnership with Roseau Technologies, within the framework of the 2025 Digital Energy Partnership.

Project leaders description

Senelec

The Société nationale d’électricité du Sénégal is the country’s main electricity provider. Over the past ten years, Senelec has significantly expanded its generation capacity and modernised its network, with 29% of its energy mix coming from renewable sources. Through sustained efforts to improve network accessibility, reliability and resilience, its customer base reached 2.19 million customers in 2022.

Actively engaged in a digital transformation strategy, Senelec leads large-scale initiatives aimed at optimising internal processes, improving service quality and anticipating future developments of the national electricity network.

Roseau Technologies

Roseau Technologies is a French technology company specialised in software solutions for the modelling, simulation and planning of electricity distribution networks. Renowned for its expertise in digital twins for power networks, the company supports utilities in the digitalisation of their operational processes, optimisation of network studies and advanced data-driven planning for long-term infrastructure development.

Selected for the 2025 Digital Energy Partnership, Roseau Technologies brings its technological and methodological expertise to support the modernisation of Senegal’s electricity distribution network.

Project context

In a context of sustained growth in electricity demand and increasing integration of renewable energy, Senelec faces a rising number of connection requests as well as growing challenges related to network planning and reinforcement.

Existing processes, which remain partly manual, make real-time identification and registration of connections complex and resource-intensive for technical teams.

As part of its efforts to optimise and digitalise its operations, Senelec sought innovative solutions to improve customer experience, streamline connection workflows and leverage data to anticipate future network needs.

The Digital Energy Partnership 2025 provides a structured framework to pilot and deploy these solutions through a targeted technology partnership with Roseau Technologies.

Project objectives

• Improve the customer experience for grid connections by enabling instant feasibility checks and fully digitalised connection requests.
• Optimise operator workflows and the management of connection applications within Senelec.
• Provide the engineering department with a dedicated tool for technical network studies, integrated within a single platform.
• Enable real-time identification and registration of connections to improve visibility and control of the distribution network.
• Anticipate network extension and reinforcement needs over a 10–15-year horizon through data analysis.
• Accelerate Senelec’s digital transformation, in line with its objectives for network resilience and operational performance.

Project activities

• Collection, consolidation and processing of network data to develop a digital twin of the distribution network in a pilot area.
• Deployment of the Berenis application, including integration of the network model and development of customised modules tailored to Senelec’s needs.
• Implementation of an all-in-one web platform for connection management, including instant feasibility checks, online applications and case tracking.
• Optimisation of operator workflows within the platform to improve processing efficiency.
• Analysis and valorisation of platform data to support network planning and investment forecasting.
• Change management support, including team training, technical assistance for short- and long-term network studies, and advisory services on network data management.

Project impacts

• Significant improvement in customer service quality, with simpler, faster and more transparent connection procedures.
• Increased operational efficiency for Senelec, through the digitalisation of processes and centralisation of engineering and management tools.
• Improved visibility and control of the distribution network, enabled by real-time identification and registration of connections.
• Enhanced medium- and long-term planning capabilities, allowing anticipation of network reinforcement needs over a 10–15-year timeframe.
• Acceleration of the digital modernisation of Senegal’s electricity network, with strong potential for national-scale deployment beyond the pilot area.
• Contribution to the resilience and sustainability of the power system, in line with Senegal’s energy transition objectives.