Productive use of energy in African micro-grids

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This report is part of a series of reports being developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Energy 4 Impact in support of the Power Africa Beyond the Grid Program. It is a resource entrepreneurs and developers can use to understand the technical and business model challenges related to PUE in smaller micro-grids. It examines best practices for promoting PUE and the business models used by developers. The report focuses on small agricultural processing, and small industrial and commercial loads.

Authors: Samuel Booth, Xiangkun Li, and Ian Baring-Gould, National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Diana Kollanyi, Abishek Bharadwaj and Peter Weston, Energy 4 Impact