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Emmanuelle Guillou, photovoltaic project manager, explains to us how Explain supports the daily work of the “ground projects” division at Orion Energies, both in prospecting and in development.
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The teams of the recently created “ground projects” division were looking for a new tool to structure the prospecting activity and promote the development of the new “small ground projects” orientation.
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On Orion's historical activities in the photovoltaic sector, the team sought to optimize the tedious work of looking for field information in order to identify new favorable areas and prepare for meetings with institutions.
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No need to spend hours on the sites of town halls, prefectures or MRaes: Explain automates the collection and processing of all publications from local authorities, public administrations and local press titles.
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“Before Explain, we didn't have a tool dedicated to prospecting. In particular, we used Geoportal and Cartofriches, but they did not allow us to sort efficiently and often made us arrive downstream of the projects. We had to complete this with a Google search, in particular to search for the ZAERs.
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Explain centralizes the local information that interests us on a single platform, and reports it back to us as soon as it is published in an administrative document or a press article.
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Since the adoption of the software, we have gained a lot of time in prospecting in identifying favorable and developing areas, in looking for context around our projects.”
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Emmanuelle Guillou, photovoltaic project manager
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Explain alerts bring up local news about its projects in development. This makes it possible to monitor the technical and environmental issues specific to the territory and to see how they have been managed on other projects. By addressing these constraints from the start, you promote the future acceptance of your project.
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“Explain recently sent us an article that mentioned local objections to an agrivoltaic project close to one of our projects, information that had not been reported to us through our other channels. We immediately contacted the elected officials to understand the reasons for dissatisfaction and to promote the future acceptability of our project.”
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Explain offers a filter per elected representative to access the latest statements by local actors in connection with renewable energies. Users also have access to the history of the functions occupied by the elected official in question. This feature saves a lot of preparation time prior to meetings with institutions.
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“Explain allows me to go into the field better armed, with a better context, especially in departments that I know less well. It is a very good tool to support field work, which allowed me to halve the preparation time before appointments.
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The tool has not changed anything at the pace of our trips, but it makes our field work more effective because it is better targeted.”Â
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The Customer Support team configures each user's interface in a personalized manner to meet their own challenges, which are not identical to those of their colleagues.
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“The Explain teams took the time to help me get started with the tool and set up my alerts. During this period, I was testing several tools in parallel and I found Explain really very user-friendly.”
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