Smart Integrated Community Energy in Northern Tanzania

微型电网被广泛提倡为解决发展中国家普遍能源获取的最合适的解决方案。然而，很少有小型电网在没有补贴的情况下实现可持续的长期运营。我们的合作伙伴关系正在坦桑尼亚北部边缘化的马赛人社区试行一种微型电网设计和安装的创新方法。在我们的“智慧村”电气化和发展模式下，我们与社区合作，确定他们的需求和支付能力，并设计一种综合技术方法，将清洁能源微型电网与一套适用于生产用途、农业生产力和增值的适当相关技术，以及医疗、教育和清洁水等社区服务结合起来，以促进可持续的长期社区发展。这也增加了小型电网对电力的需求，提高了社区的支付能力。我们将在四个离网马赛社区测试这一方法，以尝试实现一种可以更广泛应用的可持续商业模式，并将遵循严格的监测和影响分析制度，以收集必要的证据来证明这种方法的好处。

Minigrids are widely advocated as the most appropriate solution for solving universal energy access in the developing world. However, few minigrids achieve sustainable long-term operations without subsidy. Our partnership is trialling an innovative approach to minigrid design and installation in marginalised Maasai communities in Northern Tanzania. On our "Smart Village" electrification and development model, we work with communities to determine their needs and ability to pay, and design an integrated technology approach that combines a clean energy minigrid with a suite of appropriate and relevant technologies for productive uses, agricultural productivity and value addition, and community services such as healthcare, education and clean water, in order to promote sustainable long-term community development, which also has the effect of increasing demand for power from the minigrid and improving the community's ability to pay. We will test this approach in four offgrid Maasai communities, to try to achieve a sustainable business model that can be applied more widely, and will also follow a rigourous monitoring and impact analysis regime to collect the evidence necessary to prove the benefits of this approach.