Vision, Strategy, Key Results

Vision

Thriving Communities Communities 

Strategy 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 Results 

Completed

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

Now

• Pilot microgrid in a small community of 8 to 10 homes
  
  • Bulk (discounted billing) through UEDCL UEDCL 
    
  • Test smart metering hardware hardware 
    
  • Test monitoring and steering software for meters meters 
    
  • Test customer post paid billing billing 
    
• Connect with Linux Foundation energy community for collaboration on Microgrid software software 
  
• Find hardware partners in China China 
  
• Connect with 2 potential customers customers 
  
  • Bugolobi flats flats 
    
  • ?  
    
• Publish one or two knowledge base articles 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 collective 

Next

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

Later

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