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

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

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

7. Microgrid Players
Start-ups
Multinationals

8. Microgrid Players
Start-ups
Multinationals
No true scale

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

10. + = Three Challenges to Scale: Solution Company Profile
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?
Be a technology and service provider
Bundling payment and trading platform, and solar generation system
Partnership with solution providers (solar systems) to integrate technologies
Who are our customers?
Users (do not pay us directly)
Solution Providers (PowerGen, PowerHive, M-Kopa)
What we do?
Technology provider (embedded into smart meters)
Payment and trading management
How do we make money?
Subscription / transaction Fee over energy traded

12. $ 2 M for 30% of the company What we need What we will do
Tanzania
$ 2 M for 30% of the company
What we need
What we will do
Platform development
Pilot Program