Vision, Strategy, Key Results

Vision

Thriving Communities 

Strategy 

Advancing Sustainable, Reliable, Affordable Energy through resilient Community Owned Microgrids. We build and operate these microgrids and teach others how to do the same. 

Key Results 

Completed

• Find Partners and advisors and cofounders 
  • Dansturn - Grid Operations 
  • Hillary - Metering Technology 
  • Michael Goldbach - Advisor 
• Attend Microgrid Conference in Dallas, April 2025 and connect with the community
• Register NFE as a Utility Company in Uganda 
• Set up collaboration tools for NFE team 
  • Email and Calendar 
  • Wiki / Documentation  
  • Time tracking 
  • Website 
  • Group chat 
  • Video calling 
  • Meeting Scheduling 
  • Version Source Control 
  • Customer Help desk 
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 
    
  • Project Management 
• Evaluations and sourcing for 
  • Metering Partner 
  • Payment Processing Provider 

Now

• Pilot microgrid in a small community of 8 to 10 homes
  
  • Bulk (discounted billing) through UEDCL 
    
  • Test smart metering hardware 
    
  • Test monitoring and steering software for meters 
    
  • Test customer post paid billing 
    
• Connect with Linux Foundation energy community for collaboration on Microgrid software 
  
• Find hardware partners in China 
  
• Connect with 2 potential customers 
  
  • Bugolobi flats 
    
  • ? 
    
• Publish one or two knowledge base articles 
  
  • Share about Smart metering (finding a vendor and deciding on communication protocols) 
    
  • Payment/Vending systems: Evaluating uganda's online payment ecosystem
• Financial Transparency - Publish our finances on open collective 

Next

• Bellavista microgrid 
  
  • 1st customer onboarding (sign MOU) 
    
  • Enable smart metering 
    
  • Enable customer post paid billing 
• Introduce BESS for Pilot customer 
  
  • Test power backup offering 
    

Later

• Enable BESS for Bellavista 
  
• Enable Solar PVs for Pilot 
  
• Start using open source software for running the microgrid