Productive Power Use Workshop – 3rd July 2017

The University of Southampton and Africa Power recently held a workshop on ‘Productive Uses of Power’ in a rural African setting. The workshop was attended by various UK based organisations and experts working within the energy access space. The morning session consisted of introductions to energy access and productive uses as well as case study presentations by invited speakers from Practical Action Consulting, Mesh Power, Loughborough University and GERES. Presentations and content from the day are free to download using the links below.

Downloads

• Agenda and Workshop Details (pdf)
  

• Introduction to Energy Access
  Prof AbuBakr Bahaj, University of Southampton

• Consortium Approach to Energy Access (pdf)
  Dr Alastair Livesey, Africa Power

• Case Study 1 – Productive Power (pdf)
  Emma Colenbrander, Practical Action Consulting

• Case Study 2 – Green Business Area (pdf)
  Jean Billant, GERES

• Case Study 3 – Solar Nanogrids (The SONG Project) (pdf)
  Dr Jon Cloke, Loughborough University & LCEDN

• Case Study 4 – DC Mini-Grids in Rwanda (pdf)
  Richard Mori, Mesh Power

• Productive Power Use Examples (jpg)
  Group Exercise

• Productive Power Use – Profitability vs Data Availability (jpg)
  Group Exercise

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