Empowering impactful development across rural Malawi through clean Energy HUBs

马拉维是世界上最贫穷的国家之一，该国在社会的多个方面面临着严峻的挑战。25岁及以上的人口中只有16%完成了中学教育，15至29岁的人口中有70%没有在正规组织就业。只有18%的马拉维人口能够获得电力服务。由于缺乏操作和维护文化，通常会导致安装的太阳能系统得不到维护，仅用2-3年就停止运行，而其技术寿命通常为15-20年。Differ Community Power专门为发展中国家的学校和卫生设施提供可靠的能源服务。在马拉维，DCP与SteamaCo合作，有100多个站点在运行，在所有这些站点，白天都有多余的能源，目前没有使用。该项目寻求利用这些过剩能源来解决上述挑战的方法，包括在卫生设施的太阳能系统上进行O&M赚钱。我们正在通过向承购者出售电力服务来实现这一目标。这些承购者必须负担得起能源的费用，而这种支付能力是我们是否能够创造一个可行的业务的主要风险。承购人及相关业务的例子如下：1.农业灌溉用水服务：白天利用多余的能量将水抽入水箱，农民可以在夜间利用灌溉系统和重力为土壤供水。80%的人口参与农业活动，提供水，使农民有可能有一个以上的收获季节，是有希望的。为农业提供冷却服务收益：利用多余的能源为农业提供冷却服务收益。收益和价值的损失将大大减少3。家庭能源服务：使用多余的能量为电池充电，这些电池被出租给那些买不起自己的太阳能家庭系统的家庭。为农民提供磨粉服务：所有这些服务都意味着出售电力，如果成功的话，将对几个可持续发展目标产生非常积极的影响，例如卫生服务（SDG 3），教育（SDG 4），清洁能源（SDG 7），经济增长（SDG 8）和气候变化（SDG 13）。

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the country faces severe challenges in multiple aspects of the society. Only around 16% of the population aged 25 and above have completed secondary school, 70% of Malawi's population between 15 and 29 are not employed by formal organisations. Only 18% of the Malawi population has access to electricity services. And the lack of a culture for operation and maintenance often results in that for instance installed solar energy systems are not taken care of and stop functioning after just 2-3 years while their technical life-time is often 15-20 years.Differ Community Power is specialised in providing reliable energy services to schools and health facilities in developing countries. In Malawi, DCP, with SteamaCo, has more than 100 sites in operation, and at all of these sites there is excess energy available during daytime that currently is not used. This project seeks ways to use this excess energy to solve some of the challenges mentioned above, including earning money to do O&M on the solar energy systems at the health facilities.We are doing this by selling electricity services to off-takers. These off-takers must afford paying for the energy, and this ability to pay is the main risk to whether we are able to create a viable business. Examples of off-takers and related businesses are:1. Water Services for agriculture irrigation: Using excess energy to pump water into water tanks during daytime and farmers can use irrigation systems and gravity for water feeding the soil during nighttime. 80% of the population is involved of agricultural activities, and providing water so that the farmers potentially can have more than one harvesting season, is promising.2. Cooling service for agriculture proceeds: Using excess energy to offer cooling services for the agriculture proceeds. The loss of proceeds and value will be significantly reduced3. Energy services for households: Using excess energy to charge batteries that are rented out to households that cannot afford their own solar home system.4. Milling services for farmers: Using excess energy to run maize mills the farmer so far have been using diesel generators for.All of these services imply selling electricity and if successful, the impact will be very positive on several of the SDGs, e.g. on health services (SDG3), education (SDG4), clean energy (SDG7), economic growth (SDG8) and climate change (SDG13).