# Roadmap

### Now 

- Optimize Phase 1 Operations for Sezibwa Rentals 
    - Billing 2.2: Enable URA Efris intergration - Aaron / Hillary
    - Metering 2.2: OpenEMS for realtime telemetry aggregation - Hillary / Aaron
    - Business As Usual - operations: Customer Support, Billing, Taxes - Aaron
- Phase 2 for Sezibwa Rentals   
    
    - Storage 2.0 - OpenEMS for realtime telemetry aggregation for inverter and batteries
    - Energy consumption and outage profiling - Hillary/ Aaron
- Scaling from 10 households to 100 households   
    
    - New Product: Submetering (requires metering 2.2 and Billing 2.2)
    - Interconnection application for 2 sites 
        - Kyanja - Not yet started
        - Pearl Marina - In-progress
        - Kyaliwajala - Not yet started
        - Serena Heights
        - Universal Town
- Fundraising and Marketing 
    - Stanbic Bank Innovator
    - Power Africa Conference - Nairobi
    - OSEA - Kigali
    - LF Energy Summit - Berlin

### Next 

- Billing 2.3 
    - CRM and billing with MPM
- Solar 1.0
- Microgrid Analytics - MCP server over the InfluxDB

### Later 

- NFE Platform (metering, storage, solar) for other energy developers (similar to [weEMS](https://white-energy.eu/en/)) 
    - NFE partners (NFE platform as a service)
- NFE Pilot in the US (we see here and we have NFE community members based in the US)
- Discovery: 
    - Water Outage Backup for Communities
    - Unlimited Drinking water - Using reverse osmosis systems for homes
    - Community wide Wifi networks

### Released

- [Sezibwa Rental Homes; Phase 1](https://nearlyfreeenergy.com/2025/11/12/go-live-pilot-at-sezibwa-rental-homes-phase-1-0/)
- Metering version 1.0 (based on [Calinmeter](https://www.szcalinmeter.com/) and CalinAMI)
- Billing version 1.0 (based on custom spreadsheets tariff calculations, Whatsapp for communication and URA's [EFRIS](https://ura.go.ug/en/efris/) for invoicing)
- Metering 2.0 
    - Locally sourced meters from [Chint](https://www.chintglobal.com/eg/en/products/instruments-meters/electricity-meter/ddsy666.html)
    - Access to data from Chint meters is also open (they are programmable)
- Metering 2.1 
    - [Customer app](https://portal.nearlyfreeenergy.com/) for monitoring
    - Custom Cron service for meter data aggregation
- Billing 2.0: Improve invoicing with [MBE](https://metering-billing-engine.vercel.app/)
- Phase 2 - Sezibwa Rentals - Initial 10 kwh battery deployment - Storage 1.0
- Fundraising for NFE growth for the next 2 to 3 years - Equity Investors: Break down [here](https://bookstack.nearlyfreeenergy.com/books/team/page/financial-model-game-plan-q2). and the latest pitch [here](https://nearlyfreeenergy.com/funders-pitch/)