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Product
Book on product development. Metering, Microgrid OS, Batteries, Invertors, Solar panels
Business
Book on business development documentation
Team
Green Volta
Documentation specific to Green Volta's current work
Market Intelligence
Market research and infrastructure analysis for target regions. Includes power grid reliability studies, outage cause analyses, regulatory environment assessments, and market opportunity evaluations to inform Nearly Free Energy's expansion strategy and product...
Community Checkins
Agendas, Meeting notes and recordings for all our meetings
Storage
Batteries and invertor
Metering
Vending
Microgrid OS
Monitoring and Steering assets on the microgrid
Fundraising
Culture, Vision and Values
What you can expect from our culture and distributed work environment.
Sezibwa Homes
This is a community of 10 homes in Nansana, Gadaffi close. It is the location of NFE's first Reliable Power Microgrid (RPM) in Uganda
Business Model
ByLaws
Regional Studies
Infrastructure and power grid analysis for specific geographic markets. Includes outage studies, reliability assessments, and local utility performance evaluations to inform market entry and product positioning strategies
Metering Evalutation
Attribute Cost (money) Interoperability long term relationship Deployment Readiness Build Quality Inhemeter 3 5 3 3 5 Gomelong Meter (no PLC meter with built-in relay) Sagewood Meters Calin Meter ? 5 ...
Capability Evaluation Criteria
Attribute Cost Interoperability Long term relationship Deployment readiness Build Quality 1 over market price proprietary standards, risk of vendor lock-in cannot reliably communicate, needs aggressive follow up and management timeline ...
Microgrid OS Evaluation
OS Cost (money) Interoperability long term relationship Deployment Readiness Quality NewSunRoad Stellar Remot by Innovex Inhemeter GxF by LF Energy MicroPower Manager ...
Billing and Payment System evalutation
Attribute Cost (money) Interoperability long term relationship Deployment Readiness Quality Pesapal 1 3 5 5 5 Jumia Pay Pegasus Kitegateway 3 3 5 3 3 Stripe Atlas Flutterwave ...
Collaboration Tools
Overview This page contains useful tips for working at NFE and for various tools we use. These tools can be found at dashboard.NearlyFreeEnergy.com Email and Celandar with NextCloud Email and Calendar Documentation with Bookstack Wiki / Documentation ...
About the Library
History of the Library The Library started when NFE was a company of just 3 people to make sharing information efficient and easy. We knew that future NFE team-members wouldn’t be able to see emails about process changes that were being sent before they j...
Pesapal
In Brief: Pesapal is a Payment Service Provider that enables various forms of Payment options for business in one platform. Through our Online and Point of Sale Payments services, we ensure customers have a variety of options, and your team can monitor all tra...
GxF Platform Evaluation
Overview GxF is an opensource platform (set of capabilities; metering, public lighting) for distribution of power on a grid. It is currently being used by and was donated to the open source community by a Dutch utility company called Alliander. Links Here'...
Wired vs Wireless meters
Wireless open standards Comparison Protocol Frequency Range Data Rate Topology Power Usage Zigbee 2.4 GHz, 915/868 MHz Short Up to 250 kbps Mesh, Star Very Low LoRaWAN 868/915 MHz Long 0.3–50 kbps Star Extremely Low W...
Previous Meetings Recorded
NFE Checkin 10/04/2025 NFE Checkin 17/04/2025 NFE Checkin 25/04/2025 NFE Checkin 02/05/2025 Meeting with Uzuzi Meter Supplier 07/05/2025
NFE Checkin - 16/05/2025
Agenda Metering Evaluation review Pearl Marina Proposal Review Company tools Demos Element (Matrix) Kimai (Time tracking) NextCloud (Calendar and Email) Bookstack (Team Documentation) Action items Prepare Fundraising update for ne...
Cost Analysis: Procurement and Shipment of 60kWh LFP BYD Batteries from China to Uganda
1. Executive Summary: This report provides a comprehensive cost estimate for purchasing and shipping a 60kWh Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery pack manufactured by BYD from China to Uganda. The analysis encompasses the estimated purchase price in China, ...
Tracker
Name Type Priority Status Owner Remarks Prince Gonahasa Recoverable Grant offered 3k USD, not yet contributed. Arinda Family Recoverable Grant 1k Contributed Kimbowa Family Recoverable Grant 1k Tushabe F...
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 Part...
Values
Collaboration We are better Together: If you want to go quickly, go alone but if you want to go far, go together Curiosity Always learning, frequently questioning and listening. Community Default to Openness. We want to learn and build in public so th...
Culture - how we work
Most of our work is asynchronous, this is the best way for people in different timezones, schedules and places to effectively collaborate. The people at Gitlab wrote a good guide on asynchronous work, please go read it. Here's some tips from Aaron Lean on...
Microgrid Capability Map
Microgrid Capabilities This diagram shows the distinct capabilities the microgrid will have and the level of freedom each capabilities for each capability's current implementation offers the community the microgrid is serving. The diagram also show Aaron's un...
Microgrids 101
This page and Wikipedia go into great detail to describe the concept of a microgrid. I would like to expand on that. During one of the weekly LF Energy Hyphae community checkin calls. When I explained that the initial phase for NFE's pilot microgrid will only ...
NFE Checkin - 23/05/2025
Payment System Evaluation Design of Sezibwa Rentals Microgrid Need to a separate switch to turn Umeme on/off May need bypass on the inverter too for maintainance How much last gasp mechanism does the Lora Gateway come with How about meters? What hap...