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。鉴于这一时期的预期人口增长率很高，这一目标需要累计连接超过10亿人。在撒哈拉以南非洲，到2030年实现普遍获得服务将需要将目前的年连接率增加两倍，达到平均每年6000多万人（国际能源机构）。实现普遍获得服务将需要每年平均400亿美元的投资，其中三分之二的额外投资仅用于撒哈拉以南非洲。撒南非洲有近6亿人用不上电，占全球总数的三分之二以上。撒哈拉以南非洲约有一半的人口无法获得电力，他们生活在五个国家：尼日利亚、刚果民主共和国、埃塞俄比亚、坦桑尼亚和乌干达。成立科耐萨公司是为了满足撒哈拉以南非洲发展和投资配电网络的需要。Konexa将在整个能源行业价值链中运营，包括发电（太阳能光伏和水电），中压和低压配电网络，最后一英里网络和离网分布式解决方案（太阳能家庭系统，网状电网和迷你电网）。Konexa旨在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、客户服务中心和运营维护资源等基础设施资产的协同效应，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锚商业和工业客户重新整合到电网，Konexa可以通过这些锚客户的重要收入基础，为低收入的并网住宅客户和离网客户提供可靠的能源交叉补贴。Konexa已获得尼日利亚电力监管委员会（NERC）的监管批准，将开发第一个配电子系统，在国内的专营权。我们与卡杜纳配电公司（KAEDCO）合作，该公司是一家为尼日利亚北方四个州提供服务的公用事业公司。我们已经部署了离网技术，包括微型电网、网状电网和太阳能家庭系统，并与城市和农村地区的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，从我们的集中发电站为周边社区服务，同时为较小的社区提供网状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.