Cool Efficiency in West Africa

制冷基础设施——冰箱和冰柜——对商业、家庭使用以及保存药物、疫苗和食品至关重要。与许多离网太阳能系统不同，冷却解决方案必须尽可能接近24/7运行，以确保很少或没有浪费，因此受到“过度规格”的影响，导致能源系统成本高。此外，当使用太阳能系统为冰箱供电时，有多种问题可能会中断供电，包括太阳能，电池或负载侧的故障，篡改，系统尺寸不正确或由于恶劣天气导致的低发电量。该项目将寻求解决这些问题的公司联合起来，以便项目合作伙伴Focus Energy和Koolboks能够为西非的客户提供更高质量和更易于管理的冷却服务。为此，该项目以包容性能源公司的远程监控系统云太阳能为基础，并将利用实时数据和元数据开发数据建模和机器学习技术，为冷却服务提供商及其客户提供见解。除了对已经发生的故障和问题做出反应外，该项目还将研究和开发一种解决方案，为一系列问题提供预测性维护，包括预测电池寿命的结束和预测可能出现的系统问题，如缺乏能源可用性。这些问题可以通过云太阳能充电控制器进行复杂的减载和控制，以及为太阳能系统所有者和供应商提供节能技术建议的警报来缓解。因此，该项目建议开发3种并行和集成的能力：(1)分析，(2)预测，(3)缓解。包容性能源将与Koolboks和Focus Energy以及他们的西非客户合作，以确保这些见解是相关的，并且用户界面适合目的。

Cooling infrastructure - fridges and freezers - are vital for commerce, home use and for preserving medication, vaccinations and food. Unlike many off-grid solar energy systems, cooling solutions must operate as close to 24/7 as possible to ensure there is little/no wastage and are therefore subject to 'over-specification', leading to high energy system costs. In addition, when using a solar system to power a fridge, there are multiple issues that can interrupt the power supply including faults on the solar, battery or load sides, tampering, incorrectly sized systems or low energy yield due to poor weather.This project brings together a consortium of companies that seek to solve these issues so that project partners Focus Energy and Koolboks can offer a higher quality and easier to manage cooling services for customers in West Africa. To do this, the project builds on Inclusive Energy's remote monitoring system, Cloud Solar, and will seek to develop data modelling and machine learning techniques with both the live data and meta-data to deliver insights to cooling service providers and their customers. As well as reacting to faults and issues that have already occurred, the project will investigate and develop a solution to provide predictive maintenance for a range of issues including predicting the end of life of the batteries and predicting probable system issues such as lack of energy availability.These issues can then be mitigated with sophisticated load shedding and controls via the Cloud Solar charge controller, along with alerts for the solar system owners and providers to advise on energy saving techniques. Therefore, the project proposes development of 3 parallel and integrated capabilities: (1) analyse, (2) forecast, (3) mitigate.Inclusive Energy will work with Koolboks and, Focus Energy, and their West African customers, to ensure that the insights are relevant and that the user interface is fit for purpose.