Mini-grid Builder

Introduction

Currently the minigrid segment around the globe lacks a standardized approach towards the load assessment, sizing of generation capacity and financing aspects of the projects. This results in project developers, as well as non-government organisations and municipalities to lack a deep enough understanding to compare e.g. various offers from solar companies against each other and have a common understanding of the potential energy supply presented.

Mini-grid Builder Tool

It is a publicly available tool that allows interested parties to enter data from site surveys into a database and perform calculations on the energy demand, and thus the required generation capacity.Further the tool also includes financial aspects that allow to come up with an initial project budget, that allows decisions towards the next steps. All data on each project is stored in a secure database, that allows future review and changes to any project entered.

This tool is available for Kenya, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Rwanda.

►Link to the tool: http://www.minigridbuilder.com/

Further Information

• Minigrid portal on energypedia

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