Resilience Fund supporting Mobile Power's Project "Innovation in Battery Storage for multiple uses in Sierra Leone"

弹性基金支持 Mobile Power 项目“塞拉利昂多用途电池存储创新”

• 批准号: 10024646
• 金额: $ 12.69万
• 依托单位: MOBILE POWER 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=10024646
• 关键词: Resilience; Fund; supporting; Mobile; Power

Mobile Power has designed and tested an energy distribution ecosystem that supplies affordable, clean power to poor households and enterprises in off-grid communities in Sierra Leone using a pay-as-you-go smart battery rental system. The core innovation is in the cost-effective distribution of electricity off-grid. Mobile Power's batteries are charged at solar charging stations called "MOPO Hubs". The MOPO Batteries are then rented directly from the Hub or through Distribution Agents, who are paid on commission, travelling up to 10km from the hub delivering MOPO Batteries. Agents rent the Smart Battery Packs to remote customers using our mobile phone app. The inbuilt security system prevents unauthorised activation of battery packs.This project will focus on extending this ecosystem by developing a significantly larger lithium-ion battery pack in partnership with the University of Sheffield called the MOPO600\. This will be used as energy storage for mini-grids and also will be "hot swappable" -- meaning it can also be rented out for household, business and transport use.A customer will be able to rent a battery which has been removed from the bank of batteries needed to store solar energy from solar mini-grids, but which are often not used at full capacity. The customer would be able to plug the battery into a light 3-wheel electric vehicle and deliver other charged batteries out into the local village. Some can be used to run fridges for medicines in hospitals, for example, whilst others might be used commercially for running freezers to preserve food, sewing machines or barbers' clippers, and others still might be used in customer's homes to run small appliances, charge phones and power lighting.Simulated field trials will take place at two sites in Sierra Leone. Firstly, at project partner Winch Energy's mini-grid in rural Sierra Leone with the aim of testing whether the MOPO600 will unlock additional revenue streams for solar mini-grids through maximising the revenue-generating potential of the battery storage component of the mini-grid. Women will be employed as energy entrepreneurs to rent out the MOPO600 from the Winch site for household and micro-enterprise use. The second test site will be project partner Pink Power's site in Freetown where a trial will take place of electric tuk-tuks that will be powered by MOPO600s. Women will be employed to drive the tuk-tuks through a partnership with local NGO Pink Power who have an existing project training vulnerable women as tuk-tuk drivers.

移动电力公司设计并测试了一个能源分配生态系统，该系统使用现收现付的智能电池租赁系统，为塞拉利昂离网社区的贫困家庭和企业提供负担得起的清洁电力。核心创新在于离网电力的低成本分配。移动电力公司的电池在被称为“MOPO集线器”的太阳能充电站充电。MOPO电池然后直接从中心或通过分销代理租用，分销代理收取佣金，从配送MOPO电池的中心前往最远10公里处。代理商使用我们的手机应用程序将智能电池组出租给远程客户。内置的安全系统可防止未经授权激活电池组。该项目将通过与谢菲尔德大学合作开发一种名为MOPO600\的更大的锂离子电池组，重点扩展这一生态系统。这将被用作微型电网的能量存储，也将是“热插拔”的——这意味着它也可以出租给家庭、商业和运输使用。客户将能够租用从太阳能微型电网中储存太阳能所需的电池库中取出的电池，但这些电池通常不会满负荷使用。客户可以将电池插入轻型三轮电动汽车，并将其他充电电池送到当地村庄。例如，一些可用于医院的药品冰箱，而另一些可能用于商业上的冷冻保存食品，缝纫机或理发师的剪子，还有一些可能用于客户家中的小家电，为电话充电和照明供电。模拟现场试验将在塞拉利昂的两个地点进行。首先，在项目合作伙伴Winch Energy位于塞拉利昂农村的微型电网中，测试MOPO600是否能通过最大化微型电网中电池存储组件的创收潜力，为太阳能微型电网带来额外的收入来源。妇女将被雇用为能源企业家，从温奇场址租出MOPO600供家庭和微型企业使用。第二个试验点将是项目合作伙伴Pink Power在弗里敦的试验点，在那里将试用由mopo600驱动的电动嘟嘟车。通过与当地非政府组织“粉红力量”（Pink Power）的合作，女性将被雇用驾驶嘟嘟车，该组织现有的一个项目是培训弱势女性成为嘟嘟车司机。