Side Event Energy Access Innovation Lab Session
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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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Challenges
Opportunities