Elum Energy Microgrid Impact Challenge
The Elum Microgrid Impact Challenge has ended
Elum Energy would like to thank you all for your participation at the Microgrid Impact Challenge which was a success as we received more than 25 submissions of brilliant solar microgrid projects including BESS!
The MIC was organized as part of the ePowerControl ES/ES+ launch, our new controller dedicated to battery energy storage systems, and aimed at promoting innovative solar projects with strong socioeconomic and environmental impacts.
Amongst the submitted projects, 3 of them really stood out and caught the attention of Elum and our partners. Elum Energy would like to congratulate all the brilliant minds behind the submitted projects as the results were tight!
Together with ARE, AMDA, GOGLA and UL, we are proud to announce and congratulate the winners of this first edition of the Microgrid Impact Challenge!
The Elum Microgrid Impact Challenge has ended
Elum Energy would like to thank you all for your participation at the Microgrid Impact Challenge which was a success as we received more than 25 submissions of brilliant solar microgrid projects including BESS!
The MIC was organized as part of the ePowerControl ES/ES+ launch, our new controller dedicated to battery energy storage systems, and aimed at promoting innovative solar projects with strong socioeconomic and environmental impacts.
Amongst the submitted projects, 3 of them really stood out and caught the attention of Elum and our partners. Elum Energy would like to congratulate all the brilliant minds behind the submitted projects as the results were tight!
Meet the Winners
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
1st Place
Zuwa Energy
Location: Goma – Malawi
Grid type: Off-grid
Description:
Equipped with Fronius inverters, BYD batteries, and Teksan gensets, this project by Zuwa Energy is the grand winner of the Elum Energy Impact Challenge. To actively work towards the electrification of off-grid rural public institutions such as health centers and schools, they will set up a new project in Goma, Malawi. This particular project aims to reduce maternal deaths caused by the difficulty created by the lack of electricity in medical centers and improve education quality for kids in rural areas.
About Zuwa Energy
Zuwa Energy is addressing energy poverty to improve the lives of Malawians and helping businesses to succeed through access to clean, better, reliable and affordable solar power. We achieve this in 2 ways: firstly, through leasing-to-own of Solar Home Systems, more than 20,000 people have lights at night, charge their phones, watch TV and keep perishable food longer and cooler every day.
2nd Place
Due Capital
Location: Puerto Leguizamo – Putumayo – Colombia
Grid type: Off-grid
Description:
Due Capital is the runner-up of this contest with its project in Puerto Leguizamo in Colombia.
The project’s general objective is to promote the development of rural electrification in Colombia in Non-Interconnected Zones through a microgrid consisting of a photovoltaic plant connected to the thermal generation and an energy storage system. It will benefit around 6,665 households in the Municipality of Puerto Leguizamo, which currently receive less than 6 hours of electricity per day.
It will have a profound social and environmental impact on the community through the following means:
- Promoting environmental conservation and decarbonizing the electricity generation of the municipality by reducing diesel consumption while improving energy efficiency
- Encouraging the socioeconomic development of rural and indigenous communities by giving them energy independence.
- Increasing electricity coverage in hard-to-reach areas, giving the region a greater degree of self-sufficiency.
About DUE Capital:
DUE Capital and Services SAS is an active player in the renewable energy market in Colombia. Founded in 2011, DUE Capital and Services is a firm working since its inception in the energy sector; firstly, in the hydrocarbon E&P sector in Latin America, and since 2016 on the development and structuring of solar photovoltaic investment projects in Colombia.
3rd Place
Sénégal Service Énergétique
Location: Dagana – Senegal
Grid type: Grid tied
Description:
Winning the bronze, Sénégal Service Énergétique will commission in 2024 this project in Senegal. The systems will be composed of 2 Fimer inverters, 1 Comap gensets, and Socomec batteries.
This project’s impact will be social, economic, and ecological. Its social aspect will solicit paid labor of a dozen local people for logistics, civil engineering, structural installation, and electrical connections. This project’s impact will be social, economic, and ecological. Its social aspect will solicit paid labor of a dozen local people for logistics, civil engineering, structural installation, and electrical connections.
As for ecological development, the focus will be on waste management, recycling procedures, and assets maintenance. The project would also greatly impact Greenhouse Gas emissions, avoiding a release of 1.75 T of CO2-eq/year. This contributes to a substantial effect on global warming mitigation.
About Sénégal Service Energétique:
Sénégal Service Energétique is a production and services company specialized in providing cost-effective electrical systems ensuring renewable energy supply in countries, while expanding the population’s access to modern energy services and promoting synergy between training and research. We evaluate energy production projects ranging from the identification phase to the implementation of projects by ensuring the timeliness, cost and quality standards.
We invite you to discover the full descriptions of the winning projects here, and to support them in the deployment of their ideas.
Elum Energy warmly thanks the partnering organizations that took part in this initiative and helped us bringing awareness around impactful microgrid projects:
ARE
AMDA
UL
GOGLA
What is the Elum Microgrid Impact Challenge?
As part of the launch of our new ES controller and the webinar day, Elum Energy will be organising the “Microgrid Impact Challenge”, that will invite worldwide solar microgrid energy companies to come up with impactful ideas for sustainable projects when using an ES controller, while matching Elum Energy values.
The Microgrid challenge is an international competition open to all. Elum and its partner will select the 3 best microgrid projects with a strong social and economic impact and award them with various gifts.
The challenge prizes
#1
#2
#3
#1
An ePowerControl ES controller
#2
1000$ in Elum Gift Cards
#3
500$ in Elum Gift Cards
How to participate in the Challenge?
ePowercontrol ES Energy Storage controller
High Social and/or Environmental Impact
PV + BESS and if necessary other energy sources
To participate you will need to come up with a solar PV + BESS project, that has a high social and/or environmental impact and that needs a PV+BESS controller such as the ePowerControl ES.
This challenge is open to everyone! The size of your company or your geographical location are not important. What matters is your project.
The Microgrid Impact Challenge calendar
Days
Hours
Minutes
Challenge Kick-off
At the end of each session of Elum energy webinar, the ES Keynote, the moderators will announce the game contest followed by an announcement of the terms and conditions.
Registration will remain open for 3 weeks to allow participants to develop their project.
Send your project9th February 2022End of the registrations
All participants will have to sent their sustainable project in line with Elum Energy values.
In the questionnaire that will allow their registration, they will have to answer several questions and the answers will be examined by the jury who will decide on the relevance of the project.
9th March 2022End of deliberation
The deliberation of the applications will last for 7 days after the end of the inscriptions.
The jury will be composed of Elum Energy’s employees and representatives of partnering associations.
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DISCOVER THE WINNERS17th March 2022Discover the ePowerControl ES?
Elum ePowerControl Energy Storage (ES) supervises the energy distribution of the microgrid + BESS to optimize solar PV production and grid costs while maintaining power reliability.
EpowerControl ES is a plug-and-play controller that is easy to commission, thanks to Elum’s eConf, our in-house commissioning web interface. EpowerControl ES is suitable for islanded microgrids, grid-tied applications, or hybrid applications.
Our partners
They support the Microgrid Impact Challenge and contribute to enhancing the world’s sustainable energy future
Our partners
They support the Microgrid Impact Challenge and contribute to enhancing the world’s sustainable energy future
Elum Energy 2022