Sebastian Groh Our Colombo media workshop was a two-day residential event featuring a combination of background briefings from local and international experts and entrepreneurs on energy markets and developments in the South Asian off-grid sector. The workshop offered an opportunity to explore the Smart Villages concept and study nascent Smart Village projects and relevant technologies from around the world More info: http://e4sv.org/events/south-asia-media-dialogue-workshop/

1. Create a network. Share electricity.
Brighten the future

2. 4 million +
Solar Home Systems
2,500 systems/day

3. “1.3 billion people lacking access to electricity today
and we had the same figure 20 years ago, right? -
This energy access sector must really suck!”
Energy Access Practitioner at the MES 2015 Conference in Bangalore
during a plenary discussion in April 2015

4. Source: ECOWAS, 2014
Population without electricity access,
2011

5. Source: SE4ALL, 2015
The 20 countries with the greatest
increase in access to electricity (1990-
2010)

6. Source: http://www.globalgoals.org, 2015
New York, Sep 2015

7. 1) What does universal electrification mean?
2) How do we get there?
3) And if we can‘t answer Q1, how do we actually
know that we got there?
Some fundamental questions to start with . . .

8. Source: Bhatia & Angelou, 2015

9. What’s next?

10. Average rent-out price for light:
$ 3.50/kWh
$ 10.50/kWh
Average rent-out price for mobile charging:

11. Multiple Infrastructures

12. System
Design
Excess
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Average Peak Sun Hours per Day
25% excess in an SHS
Opportunity - Solution - B Model - Financials

13. Tube light
Energy needed:
10 W for 400 lm
LED light
Energy needed:
4 W for 400 lm
45 Wh/day extra excess
(assuming 3 lights per household and 5h
utilization per day)
LED generates more surplus
Opportunity - Solution - B Model - Financials

14. Source: Phadke et al.2015

15. System Inefficiencies
Opportunity - Solution - B Model - Financials

16. What if we provided
by utilizing
Increased access
existing capacities

18. The solution …
Opportunity - Solution

19. The solution…is one door away
Opportunity - Solution

20. SOLshare allows for the creation of a DC micro-grid
Interconnection
Opportunity - Solution

21. Interconnection
The DC micro-grid has the ability to grow
Opportunity - Solution

22. by integrating new households
Interconnection
Opportunity - Solution

23. SOLshare Area Manager (SAM)
Opportunity - Solution

25. Delivery Model
Step 3: Increase your capacity
Opportunity - Solution

26. Evolutionary Access
Opportunity - Solution

27. Swarm electrification: bottom-up microgrids
Baseline vs. SHS vs. Interconnected
SHS

28. Swarm electrification: bottom-up microgrids

29. Opportunity - Solution

30. Opportunity - Solution

31. Opportunity - Solution

32. Partners

33. Thank you for your attention !!!

34. Create a network. Share electricity.
Brighten the future
contact
sebastian.groh@me-solshare.com

35. Team
Sebastian Groh
Managing Director
Raluca Dumitrescu
CFO
Hannes Kirchhoff
CTO
Daniel Philipp
Chairman of the
Board
Shahriar Chowdhury
Advisor & Member of the
Board
Daniel Ciganovic
Head of Business
Development