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

移动的电力公司设计并测试了一个能源分配生态系统，利用即用即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。核心创新在于具有成本效益的离网配电。移动的Power的电池在名为“MOPO Hubs”的太阳能充电站充电。然后，MOPO电池直接从中心或通过经销代理商租用，经销代理商收取佣金，从中心运送MOPO电池长达10公里。代理商使用我们的移动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。该项目将与谢菲尔德大学合作开发一种名为MOPO 600\的更大的锂离子电池组，以扩展该生态系统。这将被用作小型电网的能量存储，也将是“热插拔”-这意味着它也可以出租给家庭，商业和运输使用。客户将能够租用电池，这些电池已经从太阳能小型电网存储太阳能所需的电池库中取出，但通常不会满负荷使用。客户将能够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，有些可用于医院的药品冰箱，而另一些则可用于商业用途，用于保存食品的冷冻机、缝纫机或理发师的理发剪，还有一些可用于客户家中的小型电器、手机充电和电力照明。首先，在塞拉利昂农村的项目合作伙伴Winch Energy的小型电网中，旨在测试MOPO 600是否会通过最大化小型电网电池存储组件的创收潜力为太阳能小型电网释放额外的收入来源。妇女将被雇用为能源企业家，从温奇场地出租MOPO 600供家庭和微型企业使用。第二个测试地点将是项目合作伙伴Pink Power在弗里敦的地点，在那里将进行由MOPO 600提供动力的电动嘟嘟车的试验。妇女将通过与当地非政府组织粉红力量的伙伴关系被雇用来驾驶嘟嘟车，粉红力量现有一个培训弱势妇女为嘟嘟车司机的项目。

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.