This presentation was used in Euro Arab Training Course “SMART GRID AND INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY”. The course took place 25 – 29 April 2016

1. Dr Sebastian Rodriguez
Smart micro grids
For energy access
seb@i4sd.com
www.i4sd.com
932 Columbus Ave Suite 5s
NYC, NY, 10025. USA

2. Universal Access
to energy
Double the rate of
renewable energy in
generation
Double the rate of
energy efficiency

3. Batteries Piles
Kerosene lamps Mobile charging
1,300 million people,
87% living in rural
areas

4. Mali (Tiby)
Tanzania (Mbola)
Ruhira (Uganda)
Coming soon:
Ethiopia
Tanzania

5. Expenditures in energy are
small and variable across
different households and
times of the year
Electricity is an aspiration
and a need

7. Levels of Access to electricity:
National: 27.08% Rural: 14.89%
Mobile phone penetration: 57% *
Expenditures in lighting (kerosene, batteries
and piles):
$6 a $10 per household
(5% of hh income) **
*Rapport 2010 de mise en œuvre du Cadre Stratégique pour la Croissance
et la Réduction de la Pauvreté (CSCRP) 2007-2011
** Millennium Village Project Survey (2010) 296 hh/ SharedSolar Survey
(160 hh)
Example: MALI

8. Situation des Ménages
Situation:
>20 households within
100 m radius
Radius 100m

9. Photograph Credits: Jose Barnuevo
Potou cluster,
SENEGAL, first
Electricity for
social
institutions
Stand-
alone
technolog
ies
mini-grids
Local Level Planning
and Priorities
Grid
extension

10. Decision-making thru data (WB Report)
Local Priorities and
Constraints
oll-out plans and timelines
with
costing
Rural and
national
linked

11. 100m or 300 ft
Uganda
Conection to
national grid

12. What is SharedSolar?
• It’s a SMART renewable energy micro-
grid
•Platform that allows aggregation of
services and infrastructure via Smart meters
Features
•Pre-paid electricity via mobile pone and
local data network
•Control and monitoring of electricity
production and demand
•Investments based on demand are
competitive, verifiable and gradual
Pre-paid scratch card
Terminal wifi

13. Diakoroba, MALI

14. Storage systems
Modular systems
Smart meters

15. Underground and
aerial conections
Pre-financing of
internal
installations
LED lamps.
Energy
efficiency (5W)
International electric
standards
High quality materials
for long duration

16. Red Nacional
(eventualmente)
Clientes
Clientes

17. Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em
bedded&v=8IPM2oH8IAo

19. 3.06 USD/kWh Day
3.83 USD/ kWh Night
1.15 USD/kWh Day
3.06 USD/kWh Night
$2.50/
hh
pm
$9/hh
pm

21. www.sharedsolar.org
Website view
Graph of comsumption
ManagementBENEFITS:
Management in real time of demand and
production for a progressive planning of
investment

22. AfterBefore
After

23. Sustainability
Technology Financial Operational
Scale-up
• Investment
aggregation
• Verified digital
payments
• Low operations
and maintenance
costs
• Modular
• Easy installation
• Incremental
infrastructure
• Planning and
monitoring tools
• Flexible platform,
designed for future
upgrades
• Productive uses
• Intuitive and field
tested software

24. Refrigeration and food
storage
Productive
Activities
TV and satellite
receivers

25. Health centers

26. SharedSolarPump
Water Storage
Metering
Vegatable garden Households
Electric connections
Hydraulic connections
Lighting, TV,
Freezer
PV system
1000L container
200W pump
5W LED lamps 150W Freezer
75W TV
Perspectives
Irrigation•
Irrigation

27. Irrigation
Gaban Wolof
SENEGAL
2 Ha of vegetable
production
Energy for 20
families
Power <10kWp
Water at 60m
depth

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29. Mobile towers
Energy for nearby
households
Power approx 20 KWp
Working @ 99%

30. Peri-urban Segou
Peri-urban
Electrification

31. Control
room

32. Dólaresporconexión
(USD)
Total investment per connection
System equivalent 70Wp with storage of 500Wh/day.
Lifecycle of over 12 years
Approx. 80 USD/year/connection
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
2000
SharedSolar
v3.0
SharedSolar
v2.0
SharedSolar
v1.0
Medidores intelligentes Instalaciones interiores
Red eléctrica Resto de sistema
Produccion Electrica

34. SC-20
DIN mounted meter
wired LAN
Low used base
Centralised metering
Trinity
10x channel IP65 Case
wired LAN
High client density
Centralised metering
Glen Canyon
WIFI and 3G options
End of the line metering

35. GSM BTS
Wifi router
Plug computer
Ethernet (RJ45)
Mobile device
Meter
Wifi (IEEE 802.11)
range 100m
2G/3G
SMS/SMPP
Ethernet (RJ45)
GSM modem USB serial

36. airGrid antenas
airMax sector antena
Base station
(Internet Service Provider)
Wifi router
Plug computer
Ethernet (RJ45)
Ethernet (RJ45)
Mobile device
Meters
Wifi (IEEE 802.11)
range 100m
AirMax 2.4Ghz*
range up to 30km
*AirMAX is a proprietary Wi-Fi protocol with Time
Division Multiple Access (TDMA) that
allows each client to send and receive data
using pre-designated time slots managed
by an intelligent AP controller. This “time
slot” method eliminates hidden node
collisions and maximises airtime efficiency
ADSL wired connection
Ethernet (RJ45)
Wifi (IEEE 802.11)
range 100m

37. Airmax+Wifi
Infrastructure
(MALI)
airGrid antenas
airMax sector antena

38. Gateway (access point)
Household with meter
Electric distribution grid
Typical 200m
Line of sight 1000m*
802.11 n wireless mesh network
Gateway
(Access
point)
Wide Area
Network
Glen Canyon meters
with wifi mesh network
Utilty
Neighbourhood Area
Network
Cloud Applications3G/Airmax/Wimax
Data connectivty

39. IP enabled meter
(WIFI, ethernet, GSM)NAN
WAN
Cloud and
Hybrid Cloud
Applications
Data 128-bit AES encrypted and
carried using IPV4/IPV6 Internet
protocol3 trough 3G/GPRS,
Ethernet, WiMAX
Register Billing API, Automatic Meter Reading,
Power Outage Reporting, Analytics, Administration
and Provisioning, Remote Connect and
Disconnect (load shedding), Utility Branded
Consumer Portal, Mobile Field Deployment,
Prepayment
Data structure

40. www.sharedsolar.org
SharedSolar Development Team: Edwin Atkins, Matt Basinger,
Michael Benedict, Matt Berg, Eric Brewer, Jonathan Carbajal,
Harrison Chiu, Justin Elszasz, Kate Kennedy Freeman, Renaud
Gaudin, Emilio Jiménez, Levi Kingery, Yancheng Li, Achintya
Madduri, Scott McNeil, Rajesh Menon, Chris Natali, Javier Rosa,
FS Rodriguez Sanchez, John Sarik, Daniel Soto, Ivan Willig,
Groundlabs,
Associated reasearchers: Mark Johnston, Andrew Marder, Alex
Dorey, Prabhas Pokharel, Kate Freeman, Shaky Sherpa
ADVISORY BOARD: Jay Dobson, Jill Watz, A. Morton, Vic
Khaitan, Vijay Modi
Connectivity: Ericsson, Airtel and Malitel
Hardware: Scatec, Trinity Meters Trina Solar