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The Energiewende 3.0 Smart Peer-to-Peer Solar Grids for Rural

Electrification & Empowerment

www.me-solshare.com

Aziza Sultana Mukti

Head of Operations

aziza.sultana@me-solshare.com

Globally 1.1 billion people

lack access to electricity

Yet another 1 billion have only

extremely intermittent supply

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5 million Solar Home

Systems

Bangladesh

1:4 has solar in rural areas

& 28million w/o any access

US$ 3.50/kWh

US$ 10.50/kWh

Average rent-out price for light:

Average rent-out price for mobile charging:

For those in the dark, no access to

electricity means:

300,000 kWh

daily excess energy in Bangladesh

that cannot be stored by

individual solar systems

Opportunity

Gain flexibility and get more power whenever you want

A platform where solar home system users and non-users

can exchange electricity

Save Money through better energy access

Generate Income by trading electricity

SOLUTION

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SOLshare: next-generation electricity services

SOLshare has created a revolutionary new approach to bring affordable solar electricity to everyone in Bangladesh and beyond through its peer-to-peer solar

energy trading platforms. SOLshare is at the brink of creating the next generation of electricity grids. The social enterprise pioneers a micro-energy transition model 3.0 interconnecting solar home systems, monetizing (excess) solar energy along the value chain in real time with mobile money and empowering communities to

earn a direct income from the sun.

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P2P solar grids built bottom-up

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Peer-to-Peer Solar Microgrids

SOLbox net metering device

PRODUCT

mobile money enabled

plug & play

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• Data-Management Services

• Mobile-Payment PAYG Back-End

• Grid Management Services

• Machine Learning Data Analytics

• Agent and System Tracking

• Customer Support Infrastructure

Products & Services

Data Services

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Outreach

Installed SOLgrids

Upcoming SOLgrids

SOLcontrols (20<)

SOLcontrols (>20)

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SOLshare Research: Smart Data Analytics

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SOLshare Research: Smart Data Analytics

1. Social network analysis. Do people get more connected as

a result of the technology? (measurement suggestion by Barabási and Albert, 1999)

2. Do households and business significantly improves energy service level

based on the multi-tier framework (measurement suggestion by ESMAP, 2017)

3. How does electricity trading evolve over time? What if certain parameters are

being changed such as price (surge pricing/ smart tariffing – comparative analysis)

4. What does the electricity gird of the future look like in Bangladesh,

will we all be trading electricity peer-to-peer?

5. What can the Global North learn from the developments in decentralized electricity

provision in that have been undertaken in Bangladesh in the past 15 years?

SOLshare - the Energy Bank of the Future?

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Credit Top-Ups

• SHS owners top up their credit 2.1 times/month

• Non-SHS owners 4 times/month

• Users see their SOLBox as a saving account. Instead of cashing out they save the money there.

THANK YOU !

www.me-solshare.com

Aziza Sultana Mukti

Head of Operations

aziza.sultana@me-solshare.com