Pambegua Project: Rural grid rehabilitation for renewable energy access and C&I

可持续发展目标7 （SDG7）是到2030年实现普遍获得能源。鉴于这一时期预计人口将高速增长，实现这一目标需要累计连接超过10亿人。在南撒哈拉地区，到2030年实现普遍接入需要将目前的年连接速度提高两倍，平均每年超过6000万人（国际能源署）。实现普遍可及将需要每年平均投资400亿美元，其中三分之二的额外投资仅用于可持续发展领域。撒哈拉以南非洲有近6亿人用不上电，占全球总人数的三分之二以上。没有电力供应的南撒哈拉人口约有一半生活在五个国家：尼日利亚、刚果民主共和国、埃塞俄比亚、坦桑尼亚和乌干达。Konexa的成立是为了满足SSA发展和投资配电网络的需求。Konexa将在整个能源行业价值链中开展业务，包括发电（太阳能光伏和水力发电）、中压和低压配电网络、最后一英里电网和离网分布式解决方案（太阳能家庭系统、网状电网和微型电网）。Konexa的目标是通过实施和利用公用事业系统技术、通用系统和流程，以及利用呼叫中心、客户服务中心、运营和维护资源等基础设施资产之间的协同效应，实现其并网和离网计划的运营效率。此外，通过将目前依赖柴油的大型固定商业和工业客户重新整合到电网中，Konexa可以交叉补贴为低收入的并网住宅客户和离网客户提供可靠的能源，这些固定客户具有重要的收入基础。Konexa已获得尼日利亚电力监管委员会（NERC）的监管批准，在该国开发第一个分销特许经营权。我们与卡杜纳配电公司（KAEDCO）合作，这是一家服务于尼日利亚北部四个州的公用事业公司。我们已经部署了包括微型电网、网状电网和太阳能家庭系统在内的离网技术，并与城乡地区的C&I客户签署了购电协议。该项目旨在通过利用与农村C&I客户的购电协议，将我们的商业模式扩展到农村地区，并修复现有的公用事业资产，通过我们的集中发电站点为周边社区服务，同时为较小的社区提供网格电网和太阳能家庭系统。

Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) is to achieve universal access to energy by 2030\. Given high expected population growth over that period, the target requires connecting a cumulative total of more than 1 billion people. In SSA, reaching universal access by 2030 would require tripling the current rate of annual connections to over 60 million people on average each year (IEA). Achieving universal access will require an average investment of US$40bn per year, with two thirds of the additional investment in SSA alone. The nearly 600 million people without access to electricity in SSA, represent over two thirds of the global total. About half of the SSA population without access to electricity live in five countries: Nigeria, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda.Konexa was created to address the need to develop and invest in electrical distribution networks in SSA. Konexa will operate across the energy sector value chain including power generation (solar PV and hydro), medium voltage and low voltage distribution networks, last mile reticulation, and off-grid distributed solutions (solar home systems, mesh grids and mini-grids). Konexa aims to achieve operational efficiencies across its on-grid and off-grid initiatives by implementing and utilizing utility system technologies, common systems and processes and leveraging synergies across infrastructure assets such as call centres, customer service centres and operations and maintenance resources. In addition, by re-integrating large anchor commercial and industrial customers to the grid that currently rely on diesel, Konexa can cross-subsidize the provision of reliable energy to lower-income grid-connected residential customers and off-grid customers with the significant revenue base of these anchor customers.Konexa has received regulatory approval from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to develop the first distribution sub-franchise in the country. We have partnered with the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KAEDCO), a utility serving four states in Northern Nigeria. We have deployed off-grid technologies including mini-grids, mesh grids, and solar home systems, and signed PPAs with C&I customers in both urban and rural areas.This project aims to extend our business model into rural areas by leveraging PPAs with rural C&I customers and rehabilitating existing utility assets to serve surrounding communities from our centralised generation site, while serving smaller communities with mesh grids and solar home systems.