First Time Electricity Consumers: Two Years Later


Background Between June 2011 and January 2012, SharedSolar [1] introduced electricity access to approximately 65 businesses, households, and schools in Ruhiira, Uganda. SharedSolar’s mission is to supply electricity through the use of micro-grids to locations where the rural poor are without electricity and traditional grid connection is not economically feasible.
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Shared Solar: Prepaid Electricity via Mobile Telephony


SharedSolar, a project of the Modi Research Group at the School of Engineering and Earth Institute, Columbia University is investigating the viability of low-cost, incremental power infrastructure providing affordable, grid-like electric services by combining renewable energy with smart metering and storage management to provide reliable and verifiable services to off-grid communities in remote and rural
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