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