Energy Transition
(Micellium Partner) Akuo is a global renewable energy platform. It develops and structures the financing of mainly solar and wind projects. With more than €350 million in revenue, 500 employees in 20 countries, it has invested over €3.5 billion in the construction of projects it operates. A visionary company for over 20 years, it has been innovative and pioneering in the industry, whether in the concepts of Agrivoltaics, Sunstyle solar tiles, or GEM Solar, an ultra-mobile solar application. In terms of management, Akuo has developed a very strong corporate culture with a clear vision and mission, an ethical charter and embodied values, and leadership and team spirit models deployed throughout Akuo, which help group employees in their daily decision-making regarding risk management and partner relations.
Born from an unlikely meeting between Eric Scotto and Patrice Lucas, who needed each other to develop their projects, Akuo benefited from their complementarity and the support of country managers and the 500 employees who joined them over these 20 years to establish Akuo as one of the industry’s reference leaders, contributing to the establishment of renewable energies in the global energy mix.
Present worldwide, Akuo is structured around 6 regions, each aiming for autonomy across all company functions, with each region managing 4 to 5 countries. The headquarters is not a bottleneck overwhelmed by managing 20 countries from afar, but rather a leader that guides global strategy, decides on organization, sets processes and tools, and supervises and controls their deployment at a regional scale, with the development and success of its employees at the heart of its managerial ambition.
Akuo is a global player in the energy transition, whose approach has been at the heart of sustainable development for 20 years and has always integrated innovation and the connection to ecology and agriculture in its thinking and projects. It fully embodies the commitments of Micellium. Akuo was sold in 2025 to the investment fund Ardian, which will provide the means needed to continue writing its story.
Micellium is proud to continue being a shareholder of Akuo, even in an ultra-minority role, and to be able to influence the strategy and design of meaningful projects with its partners that give purpose and help change paradigms.