Resilience Fund: Additional COVID related costs to 105908 Uganda Minigrids and Anchor Loads project

复原力基金：105908 乌干达迷你电网和锚定负载项目的额外新冠相关费用

• 批准号: 10024404
• 金额: $ 6.35万
• 依托单位: SMART VILLAGES RESEARCH GROUP LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10024404
• 关键词: Resilience; Fund; Additional; COVID; related

Our original project aimed to show how creating a Farmers' Enterprise Centre (which would include cold storage services, facilities for value-addition to crops like milling or juicing, and other agriculturally-related services) in a rural offgrid community in Uganda could act as an anchor load, improving the commercial performance of a minigrid in that community (ie make it more reliable and affordable), whilst at the same time improving the incomes of the members of that community, making it easier for them to afford to pay for the electricity, and also engage in more new entrepreneurial activities and catalyse development of the community more generally.This will give us a technology and business model which will allow us to more rapidly roll out energy access technologies to offgrid agricultural communities, while at the same time creating more economic opportunities and development in those communities, leading to more sustainable and long-term development impacts.Through the project to date we have been adapting the technology and business model, so that it is now even more attractive to communities and funders, and can be implemented in a more rapid fashion. Our estimate is that by using our technology, farmers can increase their incomes three-fold, and the cost of electricity and electricity services in the community should be greatly reduced compared with other approaches.This resilience fund project is to support us with unanticipated costs relating to COVID and the need to complete system construction and installation before the end of the financial year, due to COVID-related funding considerations. This will allow us to complete the systems for the communities to test, and allow us to continue to gather the data required to validate the approach, and move forward to the next phase of scale-up, and being able to supply these solutions more widely.

我们最初的项目旨在展示如何在乌干达的一个农村离网社区建立一个农民企业中心(包括冷藏服务、碾磨或榨汁等农作物增值设施，以及其他与农业相关的服务)，如何发挥锚定负荷的作用，改善该社区的迷你格栅的商业性能(即使其更可靠、更负担得起)，同时提高该社区成员的收入，使他们更容易支付电费。这将为我们提供一种技术和商业模式，使我们能够更快地推出能源获取技术，以脱离农业社区，同时在这些社区创造更多的经济机会和发展，从而产生更可持续和长期的发展影响。通过该项目到目前为止，我们一直在调整技术和商业模式，使其现在对社区和资助者更具吸引力，并可以更快地实施。我们估计，通过使用我们的技术，农民可以将他们的收入增加三倍，与其他方式相比，社区的电力和电力服务成本应该会大大降低。这个弹性基金项目是为了支持我们支付与COVID相关的意外成本，以及由于与COVID相关的资金考虑，需要在财政年度结束前完成系统建设和安装。这将使我们能够完成供社区测试的系统，并允许我们继续收集验证方法所需的数据，并前进到下一阶段的扩展，并能够更广泛地提供这些解决方案。