Empowering Africa through Energy Trading and Microgrids

Overcoming energy challenges in Africa, Tanzania PowerChain leverages blockchain to enhance energy trading and unlock microgrid potential. With significant venture capital funding, they aim to bridge the productive power gap and expand solar home systems. Through partnerships with solution providers, they offer a scalable solution for standardized design and funding challenges. Their business model focuses on subscription and transaction fees for energy traded, targeting solution providers and technology integrations. Looking forward, they plan to develop a $2 million platform and run a pilot program covering 30% of the company.

• Africa
• Energy Trading
• Microgrids
• Blockchain
• Solar

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1. Tanzania PowerChain Blockchain enabled energy trading, unlocking micro grids in Africa Martielo Franco Siddharth Agarwal Andrew Seelaus Kota Nagaishi Source:NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC

3. Solar Home Systems Grid Connections

4. Solar Home Systems Grid Connections $350M in Venture Capital funding DFI from major industry players

5. Solar Home Systems Grid Connections PRODUCTIVE POWER GAP $350M in Venture Capital funding DFI from major industry players

6. Solar Home Systems Grid Connections Current Solutions? PRODUCTIVE POWER GAP Expanded SHS products Grid Extension Microgrids

7. Microgrid Players Start-ups Multinationals

8. Microgrid Players Start-ups Multinationals No true scale

9. Selling the System Three Challenges to Scale: Standardized Design Funding

10. Selling the System Three Challenges to Scale: Standardized Design Funding Solution Company Profile Technology and service provider Bundling payment and trading platform, and solar generation system + = Partnership with solution providers (solar systems) to integrate technologies Self-balancing Trading enabled, ad hoc microgrids

11. Business Model: Users (do not pay us directly) Who are our customers? Solution Providers (PowerGen, PowerHive, M-Kopa) Technology provider (embedded into smart meters) What we do? Payment and trading management How do we make money? Subscription / transaction Fee over energy traded

12. Tanzania What we need What we will do $ 2 M Platform development Pilot Program FOR 30% OF THE COMPANY