Side Event Energy Access Innovation Lab Session

Introduction

This articles summarises the lively discussion in 4 subgroups of the Side Event "Energy Access Innovation Lab" organised by WISE.

Innovative and productive use in rural settings

• intersectoral innovations: inlcude drinking water needs into energy access; mobility
• Mitigating the risks for consumers in the villages
• make use of better data sources (all kind of data like prices, demand profiles...)
• involve the local communities
• shift in notion how to see the target audience: shift from consumtive consumption into pro-sumer (integrated producers are the same as the consumers of the energy)
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New technology

• Storage
• DC inverters
• simplify the technology to match up with the skills
• modularity
• decntralised power control
• standardisation
• integration of all size of systems
• 10 success factors
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Business models

• Productive use plays a key role
• Powering Agriculture
• Mind set: only thinking of power (=electricity) not integrating heat needs as well
• subsidies; public good
• power by information
• perception of users is important (We want the "real thing" ergo the grid)
• how can we bring all acotrs togther?
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Financing

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Further information

• https://ae4h.org/ (About AE4H:The Affordable Energy for Humanity Global Change Initiative is an international collaboration between the world's leading scientists, technology developers and practitioners on the topic of universal energy access. We believe in a future where modern, clean and reliable energy is affordable and available to everyone.)
• https://uwaterloo.ca/magazine/spring-2016/feature/4-ways-open-energy-access
• https://wise.uwaterloo.ca/.profile/nmoore13