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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 ...

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 ...

OS Cost (money) Interoperability long term relationship Deployment Readiness Quality  NewSunRoad Stellar Remot by Innovex Inhemeter  GxF by LF Energy MicroPower Manager ...

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 ...

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  ...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

  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    

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...

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, ...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...