Customers
How NFE finds and serves its customers: customer and site files, business models and market intelligence. Prospects are tracked in the ERPNext CRM; money matters live in the Finance book.
Sezibwa Homes
This is a community of 10 homes in Nansana, Gadaffi close. It is the location of NFE's first Reli...
Microgrid Design
Budget - Phase 1: Sezibwa Homes
Realtime financials tracked via open collective here: https://opencollective.com/nfe/projects/...
Site Layout
Procurement Pictorial
Monthly Finances
Energy Sales We are making these sales projects based on what they spend today and not the po...
Sezibwa Site Plan for Phase 2
Ownership (Membership)
This project is community owned as per the model described here. Funders NFE - 21,300,071 U...
Phase 1 Pictorial
Customer Registry
Name House Number Contact Meter Number ...
Inspection Document
Inspection Document.pdf
Welcome Note to Customers
Hello, This is Aaron from Nearly Free Energy. We provide reliable electricity to neighbourhoods l...
Outage log
Date Duration Reason Impact Remarks 1 September 2025 8 hours 2/3 phases wit...
Phase 1.1
Goal Install phase selectors to increase reliability when some phases have low voltage ...
Phase 2.0
Goal: Adding Battery Capacity. We are estimating that we need to add 15 to 25 kWh of battery capa...
PDU layout
H3 - 200326020209H2 - 210302003356H1 - 200326020101R1 - 250902040216R2 - R3 - 20032602019...
Nansana Community Microgrid Pilot
Demonstrating Open-Source Community Energy Systems on Unreliable Grids Executive Summary Nearly...
Microgrid Cabinet Line Diagram
Sezibwa rooftop solar: panel layout and installer brief
For: the Green Volta installers and the NFE site team. Owner: Aaron Tushabe. Last reviewed: 21 Oc...
Business Model
Business Models for the NFE Microgrid OS
[!info] Current working basis — August 2026Tariff: UEDCL Code 10.2, Q3 2026: Peak 666.5 / Should...
Solar Plus Battery Economic Case (Sezibwa)
Data provenance Underlying data: the aggregate meter meter_100 plus the 10 customer sub-meters, o...
Battery Arbitrage Economic Case (Sezibwa)
Data provenance Underlying data: the aggregate meter meter_100 plus the 10 customer sub-meters, o...
Optimal Solar and Battery Allocation (Sezibwa)
Data provenance Underlying data: the aggregate meter meter_100 plus the 10 customer sub-meters, o...
Battery Price Break-Even (Sezibwa)
Data provenance Underlying data: the aggregate meter meter_100 plus the 10 customer sub-meters, o...
Solar Sizing Re-run, Sept 2026 (600 Wp panels)
This page re-runs the solar sizing from Solar Plus Battery Economic Case (Sezibwa) on three month...
Sezibwa solar purchase: final Muden quote (19 Oct 2026)
Sezibwa (Nansana) solar purchase: final quote, 19 Oct 2026 The final proforma invoice from Muden ...
Market Intelligence
Market, grid-reliability and macroeconomic context behind NFE's business case: outage studies, cu...
Opinions on what causes Power Outages
We are sending out to this form to Ugandans in Urban areas to collect general opinions on what is...
AES: From Backup to Backbone: Community Microgrids to boost National Grid Reliability
Africa has made significant progress expanding electricity access, yet a growing challenge is eme...
Potential Customers
Prospects now live in ERPNext. Since 5 November 2026, NFE tracks prospective customers in the ERP...
Macro outlook: shilling, rates and NFE (15 Oct 2026)
Macro outlook: shilling, interest rates and NFE (15 Oct 2026) Asked by Aaron in the NFE leads cha...
Sawa Energy's Bellavista proposal (competitor benchmark)
What Sawa Energy offered Bellavista Apartments (Pearl Marina) for solar and storage, and what NF...
UMEME → UEDCL transition: market impact
Summary UEDCL (government-owned) has taken over national electricity distribution from UMEME (pri...
Tracking prospects in ERPNext CRM
Since 5 November 2026, NFE tracks prospective customers in ERPNext's CRM, not in the Library's P...
Commercial RPMs
Reliable Power Microgrids for commercial facilities using at least 2 MWh a month: the offer and t...
NFE Commercial Reliable Power Microgrids
Summary page, current as of 21 October 2026. Owner: Aaron Tushabe. The detail lives in the pages...
Commercial RPM decision log
Decisions about the Commercial RPM model, newest first. When the team decides something, add a r...
Assessing a Commercial RPM lead
How to decide whether a commercial facility is worth a Phase 1 proposal, and how to do a first-p...
Commercial RPM economics and bankability
The numbers behind the Commercial RPM: where NFE's margin comes from, the Worship Harvest Phase ...
Worship Harvest (Commercial RPM customer #1)
Customer file for Worship Harvest, NFE's first Commercial RPM prospect. Stage: proposal sent 6 O...
NFE Commercial RPM Finance Glossary
Commercial RPM Finance & Energy Glossary Plain-English reference for NFE commercial microgrid dis...