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Contributions by BasicInternet to SESA

This site summarises the contributions from the Basic Internet Foundation (BIF) in SESA. The Basic Internet Foundation is the Technology provider of Internet information spots (InfoSpots).

  • Keyna: Provide clean, affordable and renewable energy for productive use in rural and urban areas (e.g., for agricultural applications, mobility, educational and economic purposes) & Connect solar hubs to local markets and businesses through e-mobility - Generation, documentation and dissemination of knowledge through the Knowledge & Research Platform

Validation

  • Ghana: Solar off-grid for lighting (1) and Internet access (10): Extend off-grid lightening with an Info-Spot for schools and community empowerment
  • South Africa in Alicedale: Off-grid solar energy system with second-life EV batteries for storage (1) and Internet InfoSpots (10): Co-locate InfoSpots with the off-grid solar energy to provide free access to information, including the use of energy and business opportunities
  • Malawi: BioCooker for electricity and internet access; Provide local Info-Spots for community empowerment, creation of jobs or local business opportunities

Replication

  • Tanzania: Internet InfoSpots (10); Opportunity to combined InfoSpot supporting electricity business models

InfoSpots implementation

  • The planed are 80 InfoSpots to be installed within the project
  • Distributed as follow: Kenya 30, Tanzania 10, South Africa 10, Malawi 10, Namibia 10, Ghana 4, Morocco (validation), Rwanda, Nigeria
  • Kenya: 2 Living labs and 10 schools

The living labs have already received (Charles WeTu) the two sets and in the process to be installed (got the installation & testing document)

The 10 schools need RPI to be added to the spots (Barack to install)

The Internet subscription should paid by the living labs operators.

SESA-WP4 Comparatiive demonstration and replication actions

Objectives

  • Implement demonstration actions considering initial demo concept notes from the proposal phase and business models from WP3;
  • demonstrate innovative energy solutions in different socio-economic and policy environments;
  • engage stakeholders and users to enable long-term sustainability and boost user acceptance;
  • develop energy solutions with a high level of replicability;
  • Validate solutions;
  • Replicate and exploit solutions in a third context;

Task 4.2 Co-develop demonstration actions: Living Labs

The project Living labs will be real-life test beds for innovative energy solutions, which will enable the project to experiment in different environments (WeTu). Energy users and providers will be actively involved to co-create innovations and test the effectiveness of the technologies and services to ensure they meet user needs and are viable and fit into the local context (Siemens, NUST, RISE). The integration of different solutions in the demonstration project hubs will be a key focus. Each demo project concept has been outlined in the proposal phase, while technical details and an implementation plan will be developed during the first 6 months of the project, followed by the 18-month demonstration phase. The evaluation of the demo projects will start with data collection during the implementation phase, and finish with the analysis of the data in the final phase of the project, resulting in recommendations for the scale-up and further financing along with other policy recommendations. For each demo action technical equipment will be made available by EU industry partners, costs will be covered for leasing, amortisation, operations, and seed funding for business model applications. The innovations will be tested in close cooperation with local energy providers and authorities, local businesses and European industry, guided by research and innovation partners. The support teams will provide robust technical specifications tailor-made for the local context. SIN will focus on delivering 3 regional workshops through which business models can be adapted using co- creation approach with demonstration, validation and replication partners. Results from these workshops feed into the replication roadmaps (D4.5) as well as back to WP3.

Kenya:
The initial living lab concept will be implemented in Western Kenya in a rural (Homabay) and urban (Kisumu) context. This will be realized through two self-sustaining solar hubs with the aim of achieving an integrated system for Sustainable energy access – Productive use of energy – Circular economy.

Component 1: Sustainable access
Partners will co-develop two project sites (Homa Bay and Kisumu), design and construct one Solar Hub at each site (ICLEI AS, ICLEI ES, RISE, Siemens, Leitat, GEP, GG, BIF, BTH, AAMUSTED, MET) . Each solar hub will have a complete solar power system with a mounted PV array, battery banks for power storage, shelves and sockets for charging fisher lanterns, batteries, electric two wheelers and other equipment, equipment to monitor energy production, usage plus water pumping and purification systems. It will also incorporate InfoSpots for ease of information access and connectivity.

Task 4.3. Validation

Morocco (Lead: BTH; Partners: University Cadi Ayyad - IMED Lab, Green Energy Park, BIF, UEMI, National School of Architecture-Marrakech)
The validation demo will validate the integrated systems approach of renewables and energy storage systems by implementing a solar off-grid network (cost- and energy-efficient PV panels) coupled with Lithium-ion batteries for energy storage, and a sustainable model housing unit that will demonstrate domestic use cases (NMU, uYilo, NUST, Siemens). In view of the circular economy, The end-of-life management of lithium-ion batteries will be explored via R&D, testing and teaching (DTU, BIF, BTH). Finally, the potential for green transition will be explored via the deployment of electric motorcycles operated by women.

Ghana (Lead: AAMUSTED; Partners: Leitat, BIF)
The validation demo will explore clean cooking through waste-to-energy solutions and solar lighting. The demo actions will involve setting up waste-to-biogas plants for cooking, solar systems for lighting, and InfoSpots in four (4) public Second Cycle Schools. The solutions will encompass business models, capacity building on construction and maintenance of the plants, and other activities to deliver a complete value chain (BIF, BTH, Siemens). It is expected that the demonstration activities will help provide clean and reliable energy for cooking and ensure adequate availability of electricity for productive use including lighting for night-time learning activities and illuminating school compounds to ensure security at night. The free access to information through school portals will foster knowledge uptake on energy, and support digital literacy. The demo actions can be replicated in all the Senior High Schools in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions and where practicable in the over 100 Government Boarding Schools in Ghana.

South Africa (Lead: NMU; Partners: CENEX NL, BIF, BTH, UEMI)
The validation demo will test, validate and evaluate the performance of a containerised off-grid solar energy system comprising PV panels in combination with second life EV batteries for energy stationary storage, for community energy access as well as to charge a small fleet of micro utility EVs. The energy hubs will be extended by Information Spots providing free access to information on energy usage, maintenance and business opportunities. A significant aim of the project is to investigate the performance of these batteries, the technical and financial viability of such systems, as well as the scalability and replicability of this use case. The demonstration will also identify the commercial case for local authorities to invest in these solutions and study the repurposing potential of retired EV batteries for energy storage and as a means to create new jobs.

Malawi (Lead: RISE; Partners: Make it Green (SME), Going Green (local partner)
The validation demo will adapt and validate the MIG BioCooker to a small-scale and as an affordable commercial product, develop a local material supply chain by testing new biomass alternatives for the selected regions, enhance the recovery of nutrients by producing secondary bio-products: soil improvers as biochar and develop new value chain and a circular business model for local entrepreneurs and communities.

Task 4.4 Replication

Namibia (Lead: NUST; Partners: AAU, BIF)
The replication demo will introduce unconventional alternatives considering the economical, social and ecological contexts of the pilot sites. Knowledge partners (KP) NUST and AAU will deploy, evaluate and fully appropriate demo technology in the remote pilot sites, supported by InfoSpots with free access to information and knowledge on energy usage (BIF).

Tanzania (Lead: ELICO; Partners: UEMI, BTH)
The Tanzania case proposes two sets of solutions, in line with the modular living lab; one in a rural context and the other in an urban context (ELICO, BIF, BTH, UDP, Siemens). Mobile solar water pumps for irrigation: The demo intends to provide more than 1000 rural smallholder farmers, predominantly women, with interventions of solar PV technologies for irrigation, processing and other economic activities. InfoSpots will be created at the community centre, allowing the women network to achieve free access to information on the use and maintenance of the pumps, as well as other business opportunities related to energy usage. Productive use of energy for livelihood support: The demo will support farmer groups and businesses to deploy commercial solar energy applications and solutions in their value chains in the urban regions of Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Mwanza and Songea. These are solar powered pottery wheelers, mobile Solar generators for commercial use in market centres, and solar powered DC refrigerators/freezers alongside InfoSpots, deployed at community centres in both the rural and urban regions.