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Introducing “Beyond Electrons”
- February 23, 2021
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Beyond Electrons, Blog
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…Because we believed that stable, reliable and cost-effective electricity can exist in rural Nigeria sooner than most people believed. …Because we knew that lighting up off-grid communities can reduce the rate of rural-urban migration and ease the pressure on the available resources in urban areas. …Because we were aware of the many potentials that exist
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Financing Off-grid Electrification: A multi-instrument approach
- February 1, 2021
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Blog
By Oluwatobi Soyombo & Abigail Jibril Despite the funding available in the Nigerian energy sector, there is a slow rate of deployment of projects. Access to reliable electricity in Nigeria is low with a rural electrification rate of about 39%. In 2019, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified that a lack of access to reliable
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Rural Electrification: REA commissions Havenhill’s 100kWp Solar Hybrid Mini-Grid
- November 27, 2020
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Blog, News
Oyo State, Nigeria, 27/11/2020 – In fulfillment of our commitment to improving energy access to off-grid rural communities in Nigeria, Havenhill Synergy Limited in conjunction with the Federal Government of Nigeria, through its Implementing Agency – Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and the Oyo State Government officially commissioned a 100kWp solar hybrid mini-grid in Oyo State.
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Sustainable Energy Access: Protecting the future generations
- June 1, 2020
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Blog
Why is ensuring sustainable energy access for all important for future generations? Since the adoption of the sustainable development goals, there have been a couple of strides to attain completion of these goals by 2030. With coronavirus still spreading across the world, we are witnessing a new normal with a change in lifestyle, work, feeding,
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What are the components of a mini-grid?
- February 17, 2020
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Blog
What makes up a mini-grid? Our last article explained mini-grids and why they are considered for off-grid rural communities. This article would highlight the components of a mini-grid. A mini-grid will have three major parts namely – Generation, Distribution and Customer connection. We briefly explain these below: Generation Power can be generated using different sources
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What is a Mini-Grid?
- February 11, 2020
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Blog
What is a Mini-Grid? Simple as A, B, C! There is a current buzz about mini-grids. What does ‘Mini-Grid’ even mean? Why is there a buzz around it? Let’s start from somewhere, shall we? In the world right now, about 3 billion people are living in energy poverty. Out of this number, almost 900 million
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Subsidy: A catalyst for universal electrification
- January 21, 2020
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Blog
Are subsidies necessary to achieve universal electrification? Almost a billion people in the world are without access to electricity. The UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. Achieving universal electrification will happen through either main grid extension or off-grid energy solutions to
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Why Mini-grids?
- November 25, 2019
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Blog
Why are mini-grids considered a solution to getting power to the unelectrified? An estimated one billion people in the world do not have access to electricity. Yes, we know this. Did you also know that a larger number of these people are in off-grid rural communities? How do we get these people to experience the
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Havenhill Synergy Wins the Global Prize for the Track Award 2A at the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives Global Final Competition
- October 3, 2019
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: News
We are delighted to announce that Havenhill team emerged winner of the Global Prize for the Track Award 2A (Commercially Available Solutions Using Centralized Utility Models) at the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives Global Final competition in Baltimore, USA – an innovative competition to identify and promote cutting-edge, high-impact solutions to end energy poverty and
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The role of data in improving energy access in Nigeria
- August 19, 2019
- Posted by: Havenhill Synergy
- Category: Blog
DATA – A KEY FACTOR IN IMPROVING ENERGY ACCESS IN NIGERIA The off-grid electricity industry in Nigeria has little or no data. This has negative impacts on various stakeholders that could build this industry. How? Without relevant data collection and reporting, decisions made in this industry will be based on instincts, hopes, perceptions which isn’t
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