EnAccess is looking for a digital-savvy professional to design and lead the EnAccess Open Source Energy Access (OSEA) Community. Our aim is to have this online community become a leading voice in repository and promote open source innovations in energy access. You will be the first point of contact for online community members/users of innovations, responsible for developing a reliable, transparent and trustworthy relationship with the community.
To be successful in this role you will need to be a people’s person, have a deep passion for responding to online members’ needs, and understand the energy access sector. You should constantly…
We love efficiency and not wasting time at EnAccess — so here’s the TL;DR details you need about our latest Call For Proposals. Funding is available for open source projects up to USD 150,000 that have the potential to demonstrate a novel livelihood-based energy access business model in Tanzania. We would like to see pilot concepts and/or ideas; this could include building and testing the prototypes that are beyond the exploratory stage and are ready for market validation. …
Open Source Project #4: AgriGrid — a business model concept explored by ANKA Madagascar
EnAccess is excited to share our fourth project, “AgriGrid”. AgriGrid explores a new model for electrifying rural communities in Africa, which at the same time aims to increase the incomes of households and businesses in those communities. This R&D project was led by ANKA Madagascar; a leading developer of solar PV/diesel mini-grids in Madagascar.
About this project
Mini-grids are a major component of the energy access solution. …
EnAccess is supporting Open Source Oxygen Concentrators for Low Resource Settings during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Like most other organizations, our plans for the first quarter of 2020 have been slightly derailed. We started the year in great spirits and delved into searching for a new team member of our organization — we were committed to finding a senior-level colleague with leadership experience, and someone that would actively disseminate our open source work to companies who need it most. Enter Joel Chaney, our new Innovation Program Manager, who started earlier this April.
TL; DR: Our third project introduces an open source PAYGO system developed by Solaris Offgrid: the OpenPAYGO Token.
We’re excited to share the OpenPAYGO Token developed by Solaris Offgrid. Solaris Offgrid is a provider of several Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) solutions to increase access to energy and other services in off-grid communities. They also provide software and operational services to the industry through PaygOps as well as design consulting services for PAYGO products.
About this project
The emergence of PAYGO has been one of the most, if not the most, important developments in the energy access sector over the last decade. For…
TL; DR: Our second project introduces Cicada — an IoT solution developed by Okra Solar.
We’re thrilled to share the results of our second project: an open source communications module developed by Okra Solar. Okra is a fast-growing smart mini-grid developer operating throughout Southeast Asia.
During this project, Okra developed and open sourced Cicada — an open source communications module that energy access organizations can use to anticipate the roll-out of 3G and 4G infrastructure.
About this project
One of the things that makes energy access marketplaces so challenging to operate in is the nature of the physical operating environment…
In my last post, I introduced the results of the first project we funded, Devergy’s Survey Toolkit. We’ve heard from a few companies that are putting it to work and are excited about the feedback so far. (Note: If you’ve downloaded the toolkit and have feedback for us, let us know!)
While we’re happy that this toolkit is saving companies time and frustration, the feedback for this toolkit is especially sweet. …
TL; DR: Our first project, a Survey Toolkit developed by Devergy, provides new energy access organizations a simple approach to collecting and managing survey data. Download the toolkit here.
We’re excited to share the results of our first project: a Survey Toolkit assembled by Devergy, a solar PV micro-grid developer in Tanzania. This toolkit helps energy access organizations collect, manage, and visualize survey data. The best part? It’s free, highly configurable, and easy to use.
About this project
Energy access organizations work in opaque market environments. There is a lack of the kind of data that organizations and their partners…
TL;DR: EnAccess is a nonprofit that’s trialing a new model of funding innovation in energy access: cash for open knowledge and tools.
EnAccess is a nonprofit that funds open source innovation in the energy access sector. We’re trialing a new model of funding innovation: cash for open knowledge and tools. We founded EnAccess in 2017, developed and piloted our approach in 2018, and launched earlier this year.
In this post, I explain where EnAccess came from and what inspired our approach.
Introductions
Fabio De Pascale and I co-founded EnAccess after about ten years each of working in energy access, and…
EnAccess
Funding open source solutions for the energy access industry.
