|
Energy4Wellbeing aims to provide detailed, qualitative and quantitative data on off-grid energy provision impacts on well-being in the poorest South African households. It brings together engineers and social scientists through the main project activity: an intervention to bring a mini grid to an informal settlement in Cape Town that has not been formally electrified. In so doing, the project seeks to achieve real change and address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals related to sustainable and healthy communities, reducing inequalities, and improving socio-environmental conditions for households, especially women, girls and children. The results from this project will contribute towards informing relevant government policies and private sector around existing challenges to provide off-grid electricity in informal settlements in broader sub-Saharan Africa via mini-grids.
EXAMPLE OF ZONKE ENERGY PACKAGES OFFERED IN THE JABULA PILOT, WHICH WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT:
|
|
A 12V DC flat screen TV, radio and a 'plug box' (Source, Zonke energy, 2016) http://zonkeenergy.com/Gallery.php
|
A security light powered by the solar microgrid (Source, Zonke energy, 2016) http://zonkeenergy.com/Gallery.php
|
PLANNED PROJECT ACTIVITIES OVER THE PROJECT PERIOD 2020-2021
PROJECT ACTIVITIES |
2020 |
2021 |
MINI-GRID INSTALLATION |
Summer 2019 |
Minigrid will operate through 2021 and after the end of the project |
SURVEY |
Baseline and pre-installation survey completed by mid-summer 2020 |
March 2021: Post-installation survey complete |
DATA COLLECTION |
Summer 2019: app-based digital data collection starts; face to face interviews and community meetings start |
Data will be analysed and published in academic outlets, policy briefs and short reports on this website |
ROUNDTABLE POLICY BRIEFING |
- |
Policy roundtable and policy briefings take place in summer 2021 |
MINI-GRIDS INSTALLATION IN QANDU QANDU
