Title
SolaFin2Go

CoPED ID
9656c1b6-916b-421c-a2f4-ba09e0f43608

Status
Closed


Value
£529,200

Start Date
March 31, 2018

End Date
March 31, 2019

Description

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The SolaFin2Go project will address the challenge of providing standalone solar systems to make available cost effective and affordable access to electricity and thermal hot water for off-grid households in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective is to test the feasibility of ‘entry level’ technological solutions combining novel PV and solar thermal technologies financed through improved business PAYG models (enabled by the innovative FinTech platform through Mobile, Cloud and Blockchain technologies) that fit with household/community circumstances to provide basic electrification and hot water. Combining the partner technologies, resources and knowledge in this study has the potential to create a viable, cost effective off grid standalone solar solution to meet many of the challenges identified by the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) [1] initiative and directly relates to the Botswana Off Grid Plan and Energy Efficiencies plan [2]. This unique project combines traditional PV systems with battery storage and solar thermal technologies packaged together under an energy, payment and customer management platform that has customer relationship at the heart of the finance model and also has significant potential to add to economic momentum in rural communities and to Transform Energy Access (TEA) for all.

ULSTER UNIVERSITY LEAD_ORG
DPSUN LIMITED PARTICIPANT_ORG
EMPOWERED PTY PARTICIPANT_ORG
SOLAFORM LTD PARTICIPANT_ORG
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER PARTICIPANT_ORG
ULSTER UNIVERSITY PARTICIPANT_ORG
THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER PARTICIPANT_ORG
EMPOWERED FINTECH (PTY) LTD PARTICIPANT_ORG

Subjects by relevance
  1. Solar energy
  2. Renewable energy sources
  3. Energy technology
  4. Cost effectiveness
  5. Enterprises
  6. Technology
  7. Household water
  8. Energy consumption (energy technology)
  9. Households (organisations)

Extracted key phrases
  1. Solafin2go project
  2. Grid standalone solar solution
  3. Solar thermal technology
  4. Standalone solar system
  5. Thermal hot water
  6. Available cost effective
  7. Traditional PV system
  8. Unique project
  9. Challenge
  10. Partner technology
  11. Blockchain technology
  12. Energy Efficiencies plan
  13. Grid household
  14. Customer management platform
  15. Finance model

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UKRI project entry

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