WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.600 So, I wanted to talk about energy access, which is a very unknown term in European nations 00:13.600 --> 00:18.320 because we are quite lucky that we do not have the problem of energy access, but can anybody 00:18.320 --> 00:22.280 guess how many people globally do not have access to electricity? 00:22.280 --> 00:29.400 It is 675 million, which is like third largest country in the world if you put so many people. 00:29.400 --> 00:36.400 So, and 2 billion people cook with polluting fuels globally and these 2 billions are 00:36.400 --> 00:41.960 generally women, so many gendered and there was a study in nature which said that along 00:41.960 --> 00:45.920 with women there is an infant who is always latching with the mother and because they are 00:45.920 --> 00:51.520 cooking in polluting fuels, it leads to air quality pollution and there is a rise in 00:51.520 --> 00:58.320 infant mortality and so we have a SDG target 17 SDG target which are said by the UN 00:58.400 --> 01:04.880 and access to electricity is connected with 74 percent of them because you need electricity 01:04.880 --> 01:09.600 for cooling, cooking, heating for anything else and we know that how access electricity and 01:09.600 --> 01:12.280 without access electricity changes things. 01:12.280 --> 01:17.880 So, what we wanted to tell is what is the importance of integrated energy planning? 01:17.880 --> 01:21.840 You need to ensure that the demand which is coming up for electricity should be matching 01:21.840 --> 01:27.080 with the supply for electricity and this is across all the nations and we also saw during 01:27.080 --> 01:31.520 the Russia Ukraine war that how the demand was there, the supply was going down and we also 01:31.520 --> 01:36.300 need to ensure that we are actually incorporating cost effective day centralized in enable 01:36.300 --> 01:41.400 energy into the energy mix so that you know they grow and they grow in a sustainable and 01:41.400 --> 01:47.440 commonly manner and why your energy planning needs to be inclusive, it needs to include 01:47.440 --> 01:51.520 the needs for different sectors of the society, it needs to talk about what are the people 01:51.520 --> 01:55.520 looking at the bottom 30 percent of the pyramid or what are the energy requirements 01:55.600 --> 01:57.600 that are different geographical level. 01:57.600 --> 02:02.680 So, what we did, we had three, so there were three reasons we thought of developing a platform 02:02.680 --> 02:07.320 called energy access explorer, one thing was traditionally in the energy sector, it is 02:07.320 --> 02:11.560 either supply side driven or demand side driven, it does not bring in both the demand 02:11.560 --> 02:15.960 and supply at the same space and it is very important that we bring in demand, it supply 02:15.960 --> 02:16.960 at the same space. 02:16.960 --> 02:22.120 So, that the solutions which are given are viable to the consumers as well as in utility 02:22.360 --> 02:27.360 is in the discounts and we wanted already use the reliance on geospatial expertise and 02:27.360 --> 02:29.360 programming for the users. 02:29.360 --> 02:36.760 Here our users are in line ministries like your education ministry, health ministry, utility 02:36.760 --> 02:42.640 department, so they do not have to depend on high and expensive geospatials of present 02:42.640 --> 02:48.960 programming expertise and we believe in a lot on data, open source solutions and the idea 02:48.960 --> 02:53.840 was that because we are working in under a source or under developed country, we wanted 02:53.840 --> 02:58.120 to have an open source initiative so that it can reduce the software engineering cost when 02:58.120 --> 03:00.400 you want to go for the future development. 03:00.400 --> 03:06.400 But what we say is that the code and everything is open source, but data can be open access 03:06.400 --> 03:09.640 or with restriction depending on the sensitivity of the data. 03:09.640 --> 03:16.240 So, we ended up developing energy access explorer and this is the only desktop public 03:16.240 --> 03:17.240 code in SG-7. 03:17.240 --> 03:23.120 So, we are hoping that more and more you know energy tools open source energy tool actually 03:23.120 --> 03:27.520 take it up and become desktop public good and so what we data is like we bring the data 03:27.520 --> 03:35.640 and tools together for an interactive analysis on the fly for dinging energy demand and 03:35.640 --> 03:40.480 supply for a multi-dimensionality when a ge axis. 03:40.480 --> 03:46.000 But it does is it is data informed, integrated, equity driven and inclusive, so we allow 03:46.000 --> 03:49.640 users to have high resolution priority areas for intervention. 03:49.640 --> 03:54.880 This is done by on the fly multi-cliter analysis which goes up to 100 meter of resolution. 03:54.880 --> 03:59.700 We can even go to 10 meter if we have the data, but what happens is like your solar redance 03:59.700 --> 04:04.320 data or wind speed data is generally not at that resolution, then it also acts as a dynamic 04:04.320 --> 04:09.200 information system for data providers, so like state government and India is using the 04:09.200 --> 04:13.600 backend to just store all the data and then it becomes one place for all the data for 04:13.600 --> 04:14.600 them. 04:14.600 --> 04:18.360 You can use it to track changes over the time like you know you can use how a particular 04:18.360 --> 04:22.160 scheme has been bringing in the changes over time in space. 04:22.160 --> 04:25.760 We have the data from census data, satellite data, global data and national data and 04:25.760 --> 04:26.760 primary data. 04:26.760 --> 04:30.400 Is it an example how we have added demand data which then comes from what is the demand 04:30.400 --> 04:34.600 which is coming work for electricity or what is the supply options, what is the physical 04:34.600 --> 04:37.920 infrastructure which is present or what are the different energy sources. 04:37.920 --> 04:44.920 It can be small, it can be wind, it can be your biohomel or bio energy depending on the 04:44.920 --> 04:45.920 area. 04:45.920 --> 04:51.320 So, what we have done is for the front end, the data analytics, there is no need for programming 04:51.320 --> 04:57.000 and geospatial expertise, the users have been trained to actually put their data, no 04:57.000 --> 05:02.160 the analysis and then we have a backend for which we do not expect people to have programming, 05:02.160 --> 05:06.240 there are very basic GIS expertise. 05:06.240 --> 05:11.160 So, EA is backend is so, what we have is we have automated data processing because 05:11.160 --> 05:15.640 we are putting a lot of data, we ended up building a tool for paper in this is in 05:15.640 --> 05:20.400 using jdahl in Golang, what it does is it automatically picks the data with the line 05:20.400 --> 05:24.720 ministries and different departments are putting up and then it converts the data, reproject 05:24.720 --> 05:30.280 the data and mass the data depending on the need, then it has a dynamic database, we use 05:30.280 --> 05:37.160 post-grace and post-grace, we have data storage, we use Amazon S3, we have a customized 05:37.160 --> 05:40.760 content management system which is very important because as we are growing we are able 05:40.760 --> 05:46.600 to use the modularity of the different, applicator, different modules and we also wanted 05:46.600 --> 05:51.880 to have the coherence and convergence of different countries and we have a variety of base 05:51.880 --> 05:57.400 map which we get from over this thing, above box and we have a modular API which connects 05:57.400 --> 06:02.600 everything together and this is the backend, what we have done is according to the different 06:02.600 --> 06:07.120 roles and responsibilities people of the partnering institutions and data provider, they can 06:07.120 --> 06:10.680 add the data, they can add it, they can decide where to put the data. 06:10.680 --> 06:17.080 So, we have also we have the website is on production staging, creating and development. 06:17.080 --> 06:20.680 So, the idea is that production is visible to everybody else, staging is where we put 06:20.680 --> 06:26.280 some of the data which is not available for open access, containing is where we are training 06:26.280 --> 06:31.560 our local partners in the government officials and how we have developing is any where we go, 06:31.560 --> 06:36.600 we map the stakeholders, then we understand that we are there other geospatial tools in an 06:36.600 --> 06:41.560 edge access space available there, then we do data collection harmonization and we also 06:41.560 --> 06:45.880 keep on enhancing the web infrastructure with new features and functions according to the 06:45.880 --> 06:51.880 area, we do capacity building and the idea is ultimately that local government and local 06:51.960 --> 06:56.760 working group actually take the administrative rights and we then support from the backend 06:56.760 --> 07:02.760 and then we give them technical support. So, this is just small fact, currently we are covering 07:02.760 --> 07:07.960 32 percent of the total unserved and underserved population globally, we started from three 07:07.960 --> 07:13.400 countries and now we are at 20 key geographies, we are lucky that we got a partnership with 07:13.400 --> 07:20.280 more than 200 stakeholders and which this is such a niche object that having 25,000 it earning users 07:20.360 --> 07:26.120 is a very big achievement for us, I just walk through very quickly about some how we have been 07:26.120 --> 07:31.400 working in different sectors by providing an hh as an exterior thing. So, we start with 07:31.400 --> 07:37.240 productive users of energy for agriculture, so the productive uses like is very critical for the 07:37.240 --> 07:42.680 growth especially in the agricultural activities and in Africa around 17 percent of the people 07:43.400 --> 07:49.240 I mean 17 percent of the GDP is on agriculture, so can we actually map the product you know where 07:49.320 --> 07:53.480 are the productive uses, if they need an energy, do they need cold storage, where are the 07:53.480 --> 07:58.920 grid system, how do you actually ensure the grid goes there, then similarly in Kenya there is a 07:58.920 --> 08:03.960 rule which the government has got a rule that every county needs like we have municipalities 08:03.960 --> 08:08.760 are given in Europe, they have counties needs to make a county energy plan every two year. 08:08.760 --> 08:13.960 So, this is a county energy plan which we help them make for a community. So, what we do is we 08:13.960 --> 08:19.000 actually start with capacity building and they stand the data and we also use different models 08:19.080 --> 08:23.640 like for this model we use least cost electrification which is also an open source model and we 08:23.640 --> 08:28.520 used on store for cooking scenarios that what will be the demand of cooking, what will be the demand 08:28.520 --> 08:35.000 of electrification and then all the data was integrated, so that you know where how and how to 08:35.000 --> 08:39.960 like how much will it cost and then we actually ended up making a county energy plan with them. 08:39.960 --> 08:44.120 So, this was very recently launched by the government as council of governors in Makwini County 08:44.760 --> 08:50.200 and then we work on powering health care with the different health ministries. So, what we did was 08:50.200 --> 08:54.600 you and you took what is the health care facility and then you actually using the population 08:54.600 --> 08:59.400 density and time taken to travel, we actually calculated what is the energy required for each 08:59.400 --> 09:04.200 and every facility using ramp model. So, ramp is also an open source model. So, when you got 09:04.200 --> 09:10.280 electricity required for every day you can actually combine it and get the electricity for the whole 09:11.240 --> 09:16.200 country, what it helps is now the minister if you wonder has better negotiation for operations 09:16.200 --> 09:20.680 and maintenance when they are putting a PV solar system. Because if you are doing one health care 09:20.680 --> 09:26.520 facility they do not have very bigger bargaining skill but if you are doing for say thousands 09:26.520 --> 09:30.680 you can say that we need five years of operation and maintenance because one thing is to install 09:30.680 --> 09:36.120 the second thing is that it should run for the long time. So, similarly this was done in 09:36.120 --> 09:41.560 Charkana small shed in India where we helped them to prioritize which health care facilities should 09:41.560 --> 09:47.320 be solarized first and using this they actually ended up solarizing 300 health care facilities 09:47.320 --> 09:53.880 out of 3000. So, we also work for Makwini County with the UK back to how to decarmenize transport 09:53.880 --> 09:59.000 sector because everybody is not talking about put EVs but if you are putting electric vehicles 09:59.000 --> 10:03.000 you need to understand where to put electric vehicles and from where the supply of electricity 10:03.320 --> 10:06.760 will come for the electric vehicles. Otherwise if you are just thinking of putting electric 10:06.760 --> 10:11.640 vehicles after a point it will go away. People need to have like it is like if you have icy 10:11.640 --> 10:17.800 engine as there is no fuel people will stop saying so we did this. But identify as these are 10:17.800 --> 10:23.960 the places because there is a 100 1 billion project to electrify Kenya with electric vehicles and 10:23.960 --> 10:29.800 the last example is this was done with World Bank they used an analysis from EAE 2 and 10:30.760 --> 10:37.240 where are the 1 45 or it has where more than 19 billion people are living to prioritize for 10:37.240 --> 10:42.200 of red electrification and I will stop here. So, what we have done is we are very focused on 10:42.200 --> 10:47.240 equity. So, equitable access to electricity we need equitable access to 10:47.240 --> 10:52.440 software so that the stakeholders we have been left from the conversation can actually get you 10:52.440 --> 10:58.040 know granulated data and analytics and gain insights and we believe in cross sectorally here 10:58.120 --> 11:03.480 working group. So, each and every geography where we go in we have local capacity building local 11:03.480 --> 11:09.400 working group so that they actually take it forward and it is according to the need of the 11:09.400 --> 11:15.960 geography not according to the need of us and I will stop here. So, sorry. So, we have the 11:15.960 --> 11:21.240 code available in GitHub the website is also there and we are lucky enough to have a EAE training 11:21.320 --> 11:25.320 module and I will stop here if there is any question. 11:34.040 --> 11:43.240 I have lots of time please ask questions yes please. 11:43.240 --> 11:48.680 I would imagine you ingest data from many different sources in many different formats how do 11:48.760 --> 11:56.120 you handle this in the various geography. So, what we do is thankfully due to our local capacity 11:56.120 --> 12:01.480 building local working groups we train them how to upload the data and we actually ended up 12:01.480 --> 12:08.520 building a tool called paper which thus so here we have automated data processing tool 12:08.520 --> 12:14.200 paper which using gdall in go lang we have built it. So, it takes the data it harmonizes the data 12:14.280 --> 12:19.640 it ensures that it it fits into the parameters we need it. So, it does reprojection from one 12:19.640 --> 12:24.040 projection system to another projection system we calculate euclidean distance because sometimes 12:24.040 --> 12:29.240 you want to know from how many kilometers away from the road network is the health care facility. 12:29.240 --> 12:33.960 So, it calculates the distance it then master data. So, everything is reprojecting in the way 12:33.960 --> 12:42.680 it aligns with the software. Any other question yes please. 12:44.200 --> 12:54.600 So, we started at seven years back we are not very big and we launched our first system in 2019 12:55.400 --> 13:00.200 and now we are so we started with Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda. Now we are in 20th 13:00.200 --> 13:06.200 geographies across of sub-sarn African South Asia. So, we have 200 plus partners right now we are 13:06.520 --> 13:12.760 based. So, we have funding from SNV, we are funding from IKEA, 3M, good energy is doing foundation 13:12.760 --> 13:18.440 but we are hoping to make it a little bit more sustainable and more responsible depg that it 13:18.440 --> 13:23.960 slowly you know gets into revenue we do not want revenue from the government partners or others 13:23.960 --> 13:30.280 but right now African development bank is using it. So, can they actually use it for you know 13:30.280 --> 13:35.400 the so it can it be consultancy for African development bank. So, that is the idea. 13:37.160 --> 13:40.760 Oh, we are a very small team so we are at the aim of seven people. 13:42.760 --> 13:47.640 The third of the worlds on the electrify means yes. So, I think many of the projects present at 13:47.640 --> 13:53.080 here today would be eligible for a digital public good. What is the benefit from you being 13:53.080 --> 13:59.960 a digital public good. So, for us because we are a very big believer of digital public so open source 13:59.960 --> 14:05.800 data, open access, open policy. So, digital public is like a stamp that yes you know and it's like 14:05.800 --> 14:12.280 open source it's like rectangles and squares. Every square is a rectangle but all rectangles are 14:12.280 --> 14:16.520 not square. So, all open source are this you know not digital public good but digital public goods are 14:16.520 --> 14:21.560 open source. So, to be a digital public good we have the criteria as a it should for full fill any 14:21.560 --> 14:27.880 of the SDG targets the 17 SDG targets for equitable development. Then it so you get a community of 14:27.880 --> 14:32.920 different digital public goods we also had a stand yesterday of an Ajax explorer. So, a lot of people 14:32.920 --> 14:37.000 came and then you get community support and then we also talked about more of collaboration 14:37.000 --> 14:42.360 that how do you collaborate between digital public goods and it's also some of the donors they 14:42.360 --> 14:45.000 want people to have open source and digital public goods. 14:48.440 --> 14:52.680 Very impressive some people yes please. 14:52.680 --> 15:00.440 I see that you came up the places in your office where there is no energy of accessibility but then 15:00.440 --> 15:08.440 do you leverage of these like cell these two like so not energy producers or is these something 15:08.440 --> 15:16.200 that then the government takes. So, we so we actually work with Amda which is African 15:16.200 --> 15:21.480 Migrate Developer Association then use it to actually identify where to go. So, what they do 15:21.480 --> 15:26.920 is like if people have purchasing power capacity they are away from the gate connection and the 15:27.000 --> 15:31.560 solar redance is not in good. So, they can go and put minigrate and people can afford it. 15:31.560 --> 15:37.000 While the government uses it for just finish it while the government uses it to find which 15:37.000 --> 15:41.960 are the 30 percent people in the bottom of the pyramid who can't pay for things. So, they use it 15:41.960 --> 15:46.920 as assistance which can be provided for the people. So, we work with different partners and you 15:46.920 --> 15:53.880 know depending on the need. But if you have any question you can reach out to on we an Ajax 15:53.880 --> 15:57.960 this exposure. Thank you so much.