Create a network. Share electricity.
Brighten the future
4 million + Solar Home Systems
2,500 systems/day
“1.3 billion people lacking access to electricity today
and we had the same figure 20 years ago, right? -
This energy access sector must really suck!”
Energy Access Practitioner at the MES 2015 Conference in Bangalore
during a plenary discussion in April 2015
Source: ECOWAS, 2014
Population without electricity access,
2011
Source: SE4ALL, 2015
The 20 countries with the greatest
increase in access to electricity (1990-
2010)
Source: http://www.globalgoals.org, 2015
New York, Sep 2015
1) What does universal electrification mean?
2) How do we get there?
3) And if we can‘t answer Q1, how do we actually
know that we got there?
Some fundamental questions to start with . . .
Source: Bhatia & Angelou, 2015
Average rent-out price for light:
$ 3.50/kWh
$ 10.50/kWh
Average rent-out price for mobile charging:
Multiple Infrastructures
System
Design
Excess
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Average Peak Sun Hours per Day
25% excess in an SHS
Opportunity - Solution - B Model - Financials
Tube light
Energy needed:
10 W for 400 lm
LED light
Energy needed:
4 W for 400 lm
45 Wh/day extra excess (assuming 3 lights per household and 5h
utilization per day)
LED generates more surplus
Opportunity - Solution - B Model - Financials
Source: Phadke et al.2015
System Inefficiencies
Opportunity - Solution - B Model - Financials
What if we provided
by utilizing
Increased access
existing capacities
The solution …
Opportunity - Solution
The solution…is one door away
Opportunity - Solution
SOLshare allows for the creation of a DC micro-grid
Interconnection
Opportunity - Solution
Interconnection
The DC micro-grid has the ability to grow
Opportunity - Solution
by integrating new households
Interconnection
Opportunity - Solution
SOLshare Area Manager (SAM)
Opportunity - Solution
Delivery Model
Step 3: Increase your capacity
Opportunity - Solution
Evolutionary Access
Opportunity - Solution
Swarm electrification: bottom-up microgrids
Baseline vs. SHS vs. Interconnected
SHS
Swarm electrification: bottom-up microgrids
Opportunity - Solution
Opportunity - Solution
Opportunity - Solution
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Team
Sebastian Groh Managing Director
Raluca Dumitrescu CFO
Hannes Kirchhoff CTO
Daniel Philipp Chairman of the
Board
Shahriar Chowdhury Advisor & Member of the
Board
Daniel Ciganovic Head of Business
Development