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{"title": ["", "Energy Management in Botswana and Sub Saharan Africa (EMBOSSA)"], "description": ["", "\nThe nature of current Botswana electricity market can be summarized as: low security and high cost.\n\nLow security: the country sees an annual consumption around 3650 GWh, where at least 70% electricity is imported from\nSouth Africa. Such high dependency is a cause of great concern to the country's energy security, which is severely affected\nafter the South Africa energy crisis in 2008. Coupled with its sole generation plant (Morupule) under refurbishment, the\ncountry is grappling with load shedding which occurs on a daily basis. Even with a well-documented load-shedding\nschedule in place, unexpected load shedding occurs when a locality's energy demand exceeds 50 MW. The industry\nproductivity and household life quality are thus severely affected.\n\nHigh cost: Botswana has a population just over 2 million, 13.4% of which are living in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 per\nday), 30.6% in poverty and only 2.7% in urban areas. With a national average income less than £500 per household per\nmonth, household has to pay £30-100 electricity bills per month depending on the season, which accounts for\napproximately 13% of the total income.\n\nSwanbarton, a UK SME, will lead a consortium of University of Bath, University of Botswana Clean Energy Research\nCentre (CERC) and Yuasa Batteries UK in testing the technical and commercial feasibility of a system to support people in\nSub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia through the project of EMBOSSA. EMBOSSA will address this problem by enabling\nthem to have a low-cost energy store sufficient to ensure constant lighting and mobile communications. The energy store\nwill be capable of construction locally, mostly from recycled materials (including second-life car batteries and smartphones)\nand following designs which we will provide as open source, at prices affordable even for poor households. The energy\nstore will be controlled by battery management software with an optimisation system embedded. It makes charge/discharge\ndecisions based on the electricity tariff, demand estimation and load shedding schedule. The idea is to charge the battery\nduring off-peak times and discharge during peak-time or load shedding periods to: i) saving energy bills and ii) improving\nelectricity security.\n\nThe key innovations are:\ni) As the battery system is recycled, it delivers energy security at a price point that's an order of magnitude lower than\ncomparable European and North American solutions.\n\nii) It uses mobile communications technology to integrate the home system to the electricity supplier's systems so that the\nenergy management system could optimize multiple objectives including energy cost, energy security and network\ncongestion.\n\niii) It improves the optimisation performance by integrating real-time load profile estimation from cloud data, which provides an accurate and dynamic understanding of household demand.\n\nThis project will test the technical and commercial feasibility of such a system to support people in Sub-Saharan Africa. The\nsystem will help householders by ensuring that essential services are not interrupted by power cuts, and help them to\nreduce energy bills. It also helps electricity companies to make fewer power cuts at times of peak load and defer network\ninvestment.\n\nThe recycled hardware will not only stimulate local recycling economy but also give redundant hardware containing toxic\nmaterials a second life and saved from landfill. A single kerosene lamp will generate a tonne of carbon over five years.\nEMBOSSA will also reduce air pollution by enabling local poor households by reducing the use of kerosene.\n\n"], "extra_text": ["", "\n\nPotential Impact:\nThe direct beneficiary of project EMBOSSA will be Swanbarton and other related UK industry, Botswana energy\nconsumers and network operators.\n\nUK industry\nCurrent energy storage management system usually has three limitations: i) one single unified control system without\nconsidering the variance of customers behaviours and needs; ii) static load profiling without considering the variance over\ndays; iii) high cost. These issues become particularly critical in Botswana and developing countries due to the wide range\nof customer social-eco status, uncertainty in customers' behaviours and low income. Our innovation in customer tailored\noptimisation and dynamic load profiling will boost the product development of Swanbarton and give it the business\nadvantage in Botswana. Coupled with the novel recycled open-source hardware plan, this ambitious project becomes\nfeasible and promising Successful project outcomes will stimulate an emerging buoyant market to the benefit of many other\nrelated energy companies, for example battery manufacturers. It will also boost the recycle economy and increase job\nopportunity in the UK.\n\nBotswana Economy benefits\nThe product will reduce customer energy bills by charging at off-peak periods and discharging at peak times. Given the\ntime-of-use reflect the network condition, our energy management system will effectively reduce network congestions and\nthus lower the risk of outage and defer network reinforcement. Also, the recycled hardware will stimulate the local recycling\neconomy including used car battery and smartphones.\n\nBotswana Social benefits\nEMBOSSA will provide affordable energy management system to enhance energy security. As power outage occurs on a\ndaily basis in many SSA countries, EMBOSSA will be able to maintain essential service during these periods. This will\nimprove local education by giving children the light with which to study without interruption.\nEMOSSA will also enhance public health by enabling remote villages to use electricity lighting instead of toxic kerosene,\nparaffin or candles. Over 600 million people in Africa (91% population) do not have access to electricity. EMBOSSA could\nalso provide power for essential activities in hospitals including emergency treatment, surgery and refrigeration of organs,\nvaccines and medication.\nEMBOSSA will also protect networks against demand surges at the end of load shedding periods. The tailored control will\nenable each type of customer to use electricity efficiently without compromising life quality. As 70% Botswana's energy is\nimported from South Africa, EMBOSSA will help the country towards energy independence, especially when the import isdisrupted.\n\nBotswana Environmental benefits\nIn Botswana, 250000 tons of waste is generated annually; however, only 38% of this is properly disposed. EMBOSSA will\ngive redundant hardware containing toxic materials a second life, saving it from landfill. A single kerosene lamp will\ngenerate a tonne of carbon over five years. EMBOSSA will also reduce air pollution by enabling local poor households by\nreducing the use of kerosene\n\n\n"], "status": ["", "Closed"]}
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