Delivered at Intersolar Conference in Munich June 10th: premier gathering in renewable energy community. Aleutia's solar classrooms (366 in 8 African countries) and clinics (Nigeria and Ghana) could be equipped with additional solar panels, batteries and equipment to provide a cooperative microgrid for the surrounding community: communties that might be off grid for another decade. And ensure the clinic (a social anchor) always has power for lights, equipment sterilisers and vaccine refridgeration. In this way, the challenge of security, land, and roof access is already taken care of so the cost of creating permanent solar power could be as low as $2 per watt, allowing metered power at the same price we pay in the West ($0.10 per kilowatt hour)) instead of what is costs from a small generator ($1) or the equivalent light from kerosene ($10). Pico Solar projects have sought to replace kerosene but they can only provide led lights and USB charging and are very expensive for the amount of power they produce. The best way to power the next level of the pyramid (fridges, fans, TVs) is by metering it and by using the same larger, more commoditised (thus cheaper) Solar Panels, Lithium batteries and AC Inverters.

1. TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION:
SCALING ENERGY ACCESS
IN AFRICAMike Rosenberg
Founder and MD, Aleutia Computers
mr@aleutia.com

2. CONTEXT:
CRUSHING AMBITION
Challenges are immense:
■ 621m without access to grid
electricity, 93m Nigeria*
■ Sub-Saharan Africa excluding
South Africa: 36 GW
■ $10/kWh
*June 6th, 2015

3. STATUS QUO
■ > $1 kWh
■ Unscalable CAPEX & OPEX

4. PICO SOLAR:
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS TO
TODAY’S PROBLEMS
■ $100 kWh Kerosene*
■ $0.41/day high for $4/day family
*June 6th, 2015

5. FUTURE IDEALS
Grid Scale Solar hindered by:
■ Vested interests
■ Irrational Grids

6. INDUSTRIAL
APPROACH:
1MW GENSET REPLACEMENT

7. COMMODITY
COMPONENTS:

8. EMBRACE
LITHIUM
■ Avoid Nightime Genset
■ $300 per kWh
■ 2000 cycles = $0.15 per evening
kW delivered

9. MICRO GRIDS
■ Private Sector
■ Unregulated
■ Cooperative
3.5 KW,
KENYA
30 HOMES

10. NIGERIA:
TELEVISION, FANS, AND FRIDGES
■ 24kW for 240 homes
■ ~$0.60 per kW
■ AC Power

11. ALEUTIA SOLAR
CLASSROOM IN
A BOX
366 DEPLOYED SINCE 2011
■ Uganda (143)
■ Kenya (53)
■ Ghana (112)
■ Nigeria (8)
■ Sierra Leone (4)
■ Angola (1)
■ Tanzania (6)
■ Zambia (9)

12. ABC
ANCHOR
BUSINESSES
COMMUNITY

13. PREFABRICATED
SOLAR CLINIC &
MICROGRID
■ ~$50,000
■ Up to 40kW

14. CALL TO ACTION
Mike Rosenberg
Founder and MD, Aleutia Computers
mr@aleutia.com