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NFE Commercial Reliable Power Microgrids

Summary page, current as of 21 October 2026. Owner: Aaron Tushabe. The detail lives in the pages linked below. The 18 Sep "Team Review Pack v0.1" this page used to hold is in its revision history.

What it is

A Commercial Reliable Power MicrogridsMicrogrid (RPMs)RPM) is NFE's Energy as a Service offer for commercial facilities. NFE designs, finances, installs, owns and operates the battery, inverter, solar, metering and controls behind the facility's power supply. The customer buys electricity per kWh at the applicable ERA Code 10.2 time-of-use tariff, the same rate it pays UEDCL, with reliability included and no equipment to buy. It can choose to buy the system from year 5.

PhaseNFE 2adds financialno premium for reliability. Its return comes from solar: kWh that NFE's panels supply directly in the daytime, and bankabilitysolar modelstored |in the battery for the 18:00–24:00 peak, replace grid electricity NFE would otherwise buy at the same tariff it sells at.

The offer: current terms (set 6 Oct 2026)

These were agreed for the Worship Harvest worked example

   

STATUS
Team Review Draft

VERSION
0.1

DATE
18 Sep 2026



 

Core proposition
NFE sells reliable electricity as a service at approximately the customer's applicable utility tariff. The customer pays for energy used, not equipment. NFE owns, operates, maintainsproposal and replaces the reliability infrastructure, with an optional Phase 4 path to ownership.



1. Purpose of this document

This pack is intended to support the NFE weekly team review on the emerging Commercial RPM model. It captures the current product logic, a worked Phase 2 case, preliminary financing structure, customer-screening thresholds, model definitions and the decisions still required before NFE treatsare the model asthe investment-ready.funders' pitch describes.

  • Reference customer: Worship Harvest Ministries, using customer-supplied UEDCL bills and account movements.

  • Benchmark: Sawa Energy's Bellavista solar + battery lease-to-own proposal was used as a commercial-structuring reference, not as NFE's pricing model.

  • Status: Pre-feasibility / internal investment model. Site metering, EPC quotations, regulatory confirmation and credit underwriting remain required.

2. The Commercial RPM model

   

Phase

kWh.
Term

Customer outcome

NFE activity

Position
Energy

1 - Measure & Manage

price		 The

Establishapplicable anERA evidence-basedCode load10.2 andtime-of-use outagetariff baseline.

per 		Applicable

Installtaxes intervalare metering,shown characterize peak/shoulder/off-peak demand, identify critical loads and quantify current backup costs.

separately.

2 - Reliable Power

Reliability		 Included

At leastin the contractedenergy criticalprice. loadNo remains powered through normal outages.

Deploy storage, inverter/control infrastructure and enough PV to help finance theseparate reliability layer.

fee.
Upfront

3cost -to Energythe Optimization

customer		 None.

LowerNFE grid dependencefunds and optimize energy cost/reliability.

Expand PV/storage, optimize dispatch and progressively useowns the grid as a secondary source.

equipment.
Minimum

4monthly - Ownership Option

payment		 From

Customercommissioning, maythe choosegreater of the actual metered energy charge or 50% of the reference monthly energy charge agreed after Phase 1. It replaces a lower bill and is never added on top. Service-performance credits apply if NFE fails to acquiredeliver.

Utility accountNFE prefers to manage and pay the installedcustomer's system.

UEDCL bill and issue one consolidated energy bill. The customer decides during Phase 1. Formal transfer of the account only if needed.
Regulatory approval ERA

Executecertificate aof predefinedregistration buyout/transferfor mechanismthe thatmicrogrid.

OwnershipOptional purchase from year 5 ("Ownership stage"), subject to agreed terms.
Not yet standardContract term (15 years in the first protectsproposal), anydeposit, outstandingSLA lenderwording, obligations.

tariff indexation and early termination. See the open questions below.

3.

Why Worshipeach Harvest:term currentwas evidencechosen: base

Commercial RPM decision log.

Who it is for

   
Monthly

Metric

consumption		 Fit

Working value

How

What to treat it

do
Below

Average~1.5 monthly electricity consumption

MWh		 Below

~6.9the MWh/month

preliminary economic threshold		 Generally

Derived from four supplied detailed UEDCL bills; use asoutside the current baseline, not a guaranteed future load.

target
1.5–2

Annualized electricity consumption

MWh

~82.9 MWh/year

Marginal		 Assess

Used for the current screening model.

selectively
2–3

Observed load mix

MWh		 Meets

~29%the peakscreening / 52% shoulder / 19% off-peak

threshold		 Target

Usefulfor because the 18:00-24:00 peak period exactly matches the requested six-hour backup window.

assessment
3

RecentMWh utilityand payment behavior

above		 Stronger

Bills in the supplied statement were substantially/fully cleared within the billing cycles shown.

candidate

Positive early credit signal, but not a substitute for full credit underwriting.

Phase 2 reliability target

At least 6 hours during 18:00-24:00

Must be validated with interval data and critical-load definition.

Prioritise

4.

Beyond Preliminaryvolume, Phasegood 2candidates technicaluse design

most of their electricity in the day and evening (shoulder and peak periods), pay their utility bills reliably, and have roof or ground space for solar. Typical targets: churches, schools, clinics, hotels, offices, supermarkets and small factories. Facilities that run generators for reliability are especially good fits, because replacing the diesel adds to the customer's savings.

How to screen, size and check the margin on a lead: Assessing a Commercial RPM lead.

How a Commercial RPM is delivered

   

Component

timing
Phase What happens Typical

Working design

Rationale
1.

LFPMeasure battery

& Manage		 NFE

120submeters kWhthe nominal

facility at 15-minute intervals or finer, ideally after the grid/generator changeover so generator-supplied load is captured. We learn peak demand, evening, Sunday and event loads, outages and generator use, and agree the reference monthly energy charge. The customer decides whether NFE takes over the UEDCL bill.		 Usually

Provides3 headroom above historical average peak-period energy, plus usable-depth, conversion-loss and reliability reserve allowances.

months
2.

HybridReliable inverter

Power		 NFE

50installs kW,the three-phase

battery, the inverter, enough solar to pay for the reliability, and its metering and Microgrid Manager platform. Energy billing and the minimum payment start at commissioning.		 Installation

Provides3–6 headroommonths forafter instantaneousthe demandload and motor/otheroutage transientprofiles loadsare that monthly bills cannot reveal.

confirmed
3.

SolarEnergy PV

Optimization		 NFE

36-40adds kWpsolar preferred

or storage and tunes dispatch as demand and outages change, so the grid and generator become secondary sources.

PV is not needed to make a 6-hour evening battery work technically; it is included because avoided daytime/peak grid purchases finance the reliability infrastructure.

Ongoing
4.

ControlsOwnership / EMS

(optional)		 The

NFEcustomer Microgridmay OSbuy +the metering

system from year 5 at a buyout set in the contract. The price must at least clear any outstanding project debt.		 From

Requiredyear for dispatch, monitoring, billing, alarms, asset health and later portfolio management.

 

Important engineering caveat
Monthly bills show energy consumption, not instantaneous power demand. The 50 kW inverter and 120 kWh battery are preliminary. Phase 1 interval metering should validate the maximum kW demand, critical-load profile, event-day behavior, battery charge window and site power quality before procurement.

5



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