Smart Energy Exchange Network (SEEN)

撒哈拉以南非洲地区对太阳能电池板和沼气池进行了大量投资。然而，离网社区中最贫穷的成员仍然负担不起这些资产，并被禁止使用这种能源，而那些拥有资产的社区的能源供应超过了他们目前的存储选择和/或他们自己的消费需求的能力。在新的背景下，修改现有的技术和技术组合应用，将为商业模式创新创造机会。这将使产生的剩余能源能够打包成比特量，通过虚拟电网而不是物理电网进行分配，或者转移到其他生产用途。因此，智能能源交换网络(SEE)将促进社会经济金字塔底层人群更多地获得低碳能源供应，并通过提供新的能源服务(制冷、制粉、灌溉)在社区一级实现变革性的变化。

There has been significant investment into solar panels and biogas digesters within Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the poorest members of off-grid communities remain unable to afford these assets, and are prohibited from accessing such energy sources, whilst those with assets have an energy supply that exceeds the capacity of their current storage options and/or their own consumption needs. Modifying existing techniques and technologies for combined application in a new context, will create opportunities for business model innovation. This will enable surplus energy generated to be packaged into bitesize amounts for distribution via virtual, rather than physical, grids or transferred to other productive uses. As a result, the Smart Energy Exchange Network (SEEN), will facilitate greater entry level access to low carbon, energy supplies for those at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid as well as transformative change at a community level through the provision of new energy services (refrigeration, milling, irrigation).