ePowerCart - Affordable Mobile Clean Energy for Remote Communities in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa and India

ePowerCart - 为撒哈拉以南非洲和印度农村偏远社区提供经济实惠的移动清洁能源

• 批准号: 10076185
• 金额: $ 113.04万
• 依托单位: POWER ROLL LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10076185
• 关键词: ePowerCart; Affordable; Mobile; Clean; Energy

Although progress towards energy access for all is being made in developing regions, 675m people worldwide are still living without access to modern energy services \[Tracking SDG7, The Energy Progress Report, 2023\]. Hundreds of millions more people live with unreliable or expensive electricity. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, Sub-Saharan Africa's share of the global population without access rose from 74% to 77%. Since only 26% of SSA's rural population had access to electricity pre-pandemic, remote rural communities continue to lack energy access and are at risk of being left behind.People living without clean energy, depend on biomass and diesel fuels, which are highly detrimental their health and the environment. Moreover, lack of affordable and reliable energy access is a key barrier to economic and human development in emerging economies.Power Roll Ltd, The Energy and Resources Institute, India (TERI) and On Call Africa (OCA), will develop a mobile energy solution, specifically designed bring to clean, reliable and affordable energy access to underserved, isolated communities in remote areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. We will work with rural communities and organisations in India and Zambia to ensure our solution is carefully designed, considering end-user needs and potential impacts on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI).Power Roll Ltd has developed a unique, ultra-low-cost, ultra-light weight, photovoltaic (PV) thin-film based on highly innovative micro-groove architecture. We will bond our flexible PV film to pop-up fabric trailer-tents, and combine this with remotely managed energy storage to produce an affordable, transportable and pop-up, ready-to-use energy system, 'ePowerCart'.We will design and build ePowerCart prototypes for electrical/mechanical performance testing performance and field trials in India and Zambia including:* Girls' school/college, Mukteshwar (India) powering IT resources (improving connectivity), and electric lighting (extending study time)* Chalimongela/Kanyanga's mothers' shelter (S.Zambia), enabling health/sanitation education outreach, vaccination programmes, and mobile ultrasound unit (improving health and mother/baby mortality rates)* Community/agricultural solar water pumping (displacing water collection)Post-project, initially, Power Roll Ltd will produce ePowerCarts in the UK and manage distribution. Subsequently, ePowerCart will be produced for suppliers by local, in-country manufacturers via a licensing model.Successful project delivery will accelerate affordable, reliable clean energy access for our field trial participants and other remote Sub-Saharan African/Indian communities with similar climates and terrain. This will bring positive health, economic and environmental impacts to the most isolated, underserved and marginalised communities.

尽管正在发展中的地区正在取得所有能源通道的进展，但全世界有6.75亿人仍在生活，没有获得现代能源服务\ [跟踪SDG7，《能源进度报告》，2023年\]。数亿人生活在不可靠或昂贵的电力上。在联盟19日大流行之后，撒哈拉以南非洲在全球人口中的份额从74％上升到77％。由于只有26％的SSA农村人口可以使用流行前的流行，因此偏远的农村社区继续缺乏能源通道，并且有被抛弃的风险。没有清洁能源的人民居住，依赖生物量和柴油燃料，这是其健康和环境极为有害的。此外，缺乏负担得起且可靠的能源获取是新兴经济体经济和人类发展的关键障碍。我们将与印度和赞比亚的农村社区和组织合作，以确保我们的解决方案经过精心设计，考虑到最终用户需求以及对性别平等和社会包容的潜在影响。 We will bond our flexible PV film to pop-up fabric trailer-tents, and combine this with remotely managed energy storage to produce an affordable, transportable and pop-up, ready-to-use energy system, 'ePowerCart'.We will design and build ePowerCart prototypes for electrical/mechanical performance testing performance and field trials in India and Zambia including:* Girls' school/college, Mukteshwar (India) powering IT resources (improving connectivity),和电动照明（延长学习时间）* Chalimongela/Kanyanga的母亲庇护所（S.Zambia），启用健康/卫生教育宣传，疫苗接种计划和移动超声单位（改善健康和母亲/婴儿死亡率）*社区/农业太阳能水泵（流离失所水收集）的产品和prod prod farge and Epport in Unuk and Epport in Unkart inter Epport in Unkart inter locter locter locter locter locter locter locter lttd。随后，当地，国内制造商通过许可模型为供应商生产Epowercart。成功的项目交付将加速我们的现场试验参与者和其他具有类似气候和地形的野外审理参与者和其他偏远的撒哈拉以南非洲/印度社区的可靠，可靠的清洁能源。这将为最孤立，服务不足和边缘化的社区带来积极的健康，经济和环境影响。