Pay-N-Pump 2 - storage integration for home and institutional energy access, and improved irrigation impact

Pay-N-Pump 2 - 用于家庭和机构能源获取的存储集成，并改善灌溉影响

• 批准号: 10038372
• 金额: $ 29.72万
• 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: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10038372
• 关键词: Pay; Pump; storage; integration; home

PAY-N-PUMP is an innovative smart digital pay-as-you-go water-pumping and irrigation solution for small scale farmers in Uganda, built in a push-cart format, developed by Aptech Africa Ltd in an Energy Catalyst 7 project, in partnership with SVRG. Despite COVID-delays, more than 65 systems have been piloted, and farmers have observed crop-yields and household-income increase by as much as 200%.The 3 pieces of consistent feedback from customers are:1. hours of irrigation do not match farm demand (optimum timing is dawn and dusk, when solar power is weak)2. inability to use the system for household or institutional (eg schools, clinic, church) energy access, eg for lighting, phone charging or other new micro-entrepreneurial businesses3. system is out of the price range of many farmersIn this project, partners Aptech Africa and SVRG, will seek to modify the Pay-N-Pump technology to include modern, reliable Li-Ion battery storage to both enhance irrigation performance to better match market-demand, and simultaneously to make the system dual-use, so that it can both provide farm irrigation and also household or institutional energy access.This is a considerable technical challenge, but also a consumer challenge to find a design that can optimise system performance and impact in both use-case scenarios. But success in this project would see the creation of a unique, transformative technology. At the moment, users need two separate systems for household and irrigation services. This is not only expensive, but household systems are typically small and unreliable, and hard to scale as household energy-usage increases. There is no product currently on the market that combines the two use-cases as we propose, in a PAYG business model, and which is mobile for ultimate flexibility and ability to serve different needs, and therefore that is able to create such a wide range of impacts.Our modelling suggests that the storage-enhanced dual-use PAY-N-PUMP could increase farm yields by 250%, and provide irrigation and household energy at 70% of the cost of using two separate systems. We estimate that the two-in-one nature of this solution will at least double our market size, and consequently not only significantly increase agricultural productivity in Uganda, but also provide a novel and attractive solution for energy access in rural communities, since it transforms energy-access from a cost to a profit-making opportunity.This project simultaneously addresses SDG-7(Clean and affordable energy), SDG-1 (No Poverty), SDG-2 (Zero Hunger), SDG-6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), and SDG-13 (Climate Action).

PAY-N-EQUIPMENT是一种创新的智能数字即用即付抽水和灌溉解决方案，适用于乌干达的小规模农民，采用手推车形式，由Aptech Africa Ltd在Energy Catalyst 7项目中与SVRG合作开发。尽管COVID延迟，超过65个系统已经进行了试点，农民们观察到作物产量和家庭收入增加了200%。来自客户的3个一致反馈是：1.灌溉时间与农场需求不匹配（最佳时间是黎明和黄昏，此时太阳能较弱）。无法将该系统用于家庭或机构（如学校、诊所、教堂）的能源接入，如照明、手机充电或其他新的微型企业3。该系统超出了许多农民的价格范围在这个项目中，Aptech Africa和SVRG合作伙伴将寻求修改Pay-N-Pump技术，以包括现代化，可靠的锂离子电池存储，以提高灌溉性能，更好地满足市场需求，同时使系统两用，以便既能提供农田灌溉，又能提供家庭或机构能源，这是一项相当大的技术挑战，而且也是消费者的挑战，以找到一种设计，可以优化系统的性能和影响，在这两个用例的情况。但是，这个项目的成功将看到一个独特的，变革性的技术的创造。目前，用户需要两个独立的家庭和灌溉服务系统。这不仅昂贵，而且家庭系统通常较小且不可靠，并且随着家庭能源使用的增加而难以扩展。目前市场上没有任何产品能够像我们提出的那样，在现收现付的商业模式中结合这两种用例，并且是移动的，以实现最终的灵活性和满足不同需求的能力，因此能够产生如此广泛的影响。我们的模型表明，存储增强型两用现收现付可以将农场产量提高250%，并提供灌溉和家庭能源的70%的成本使用两个独立的系统。我们估计，这一解决方案的二合一性质将使我们的市场规模至少翻一番，因此不仅大大提高了乌干达的农业生产力，而且还为农村社区的能源获取提供了一个新颖而有吸引力的解决方案，因为它将能源获取从成本转变为盈利机会。SDG-1（无贫困）、SDG-2（零饥饿）、SDG-6（清洁水和卫生）和SDG-13（气候行动）。