The EnAccess Foundation
EnAccess supports Open Innovation, Collaboration, and Interoperability in Energy Access. Our vision is a world where everyone has access to safe, clean energy.
What We Do
EnAccess provides funding, technical assistance, project certification, and maintains a library of high-quality Open Source tools.
Service providers and manufactures that operate in off-grid or rural locations usually have more specific needs for their technology and infrastructure. Our library exclusively hosts software, hardware, and other Open information that is helpful and useful for the Energy Access sector.
The EnAccess library and resources have been created by Energy Access practitioners for Energy Access practitioners.
How We Got Here
EnAccess was founded in 2018 to create a more efficient and collaborative Energy Access sector by identifying, supporting, and promoting Open Innovations to fast-track the race towards SDG7.
Soon after we began publishing work in 2019, we intensified our support in the designing of projects and extended our role to include facilitating adoption. Our approach became more hands-on as we guided the technical development and documentation.
Today, EnAccess offers technical assistance to adopters, hosts an Open Source in Energy Access community, conducts live and virtual demos, and maintains all the projects in our library to keep them amazing in all aspects.
What We Do
EnAccess provides funding, technical assistance, project certification, and maintains a library of high-quality Open Source tools.
Service providers and manufactures that operate in off-grid or rural locations usually have more specific needs for their technology and infrastructure. Our library exclusively hosts software, hardware, and other Open information that is helpful and useful for the Energy Access sector.
The EnAccess library and resources have been created by Energy Access practitioners for Energy Access practitioners.
How We Got Here
EnAccess was founded in 2018 to create a more efficient and collaborative Energy Access sector by identifying, supporting, and promoting Open Innovations to fast-track the race towards SDG7.
Soon after we began publishing work in 2019, we intensified our support in the designing of projects and extended our role to include facilitating adoption. Our approach became more hands-on as we guided the technical development and documentation.
Today, EnAccess offers technical assistance to adopters, hosts an Open Source in Energy Access community, conducts live and virtual demos, and maintains all the projects in our library to keep them amazing in all aspects.
What We Do
EnAccess provides funding, technical assistance, project certification, and maintains a library of high-quality Open Source tools.
Service providers and manufactures that operate in off-grid or rural locations usually have more specific needs for their technology and infrastructure. Our library exclusively hosts software, hardware, and other Open information that is helpful and useful for the Energy Access sector.
The EnAccess library and resources have been created by Energy Access practitioners for Energy Access practitioners.
How We Got Here
EnAccess was founded in 2018 to create a more efficient and collaborative Energy Access sector by identifying, supporting, and promoting Open Innovations to fast-track the race towards SDG7.
Soon after we began publishing work in 2019, we intensified our support in the designing of projects and extended our role to include facilitating adoption. Our approach became more hands-on as we guided the technical development and documentation.
Today, EnAccess offers technical assistance to adopters, hosts an Open Source in Energy Access community, conducts live and virtual demos, and maintains all the projects in our library to keep them amazing in all aspects.
Why Open Source
In order to achieve universal energy access, we need to think outside the box and go for new and innovative project approaches, both in development and funding strategies. EnAccess focuses on Open Innovations to optimise industry collaboration, maximise donor funds impacts, and establish an Open Source sector infrastructure. This fosters interoperability, accelerates innovation cycles and avoids reinventing the wheel.
Our Impact
The effort we put into one project can easily save twenty times the same effort across the sector. For example, the direct support from EnAccess for the OpenPAYGO Token development and our constant advocacy for its use ultimately caused the leading PAYGO platform providers – Angaza, Paygee, and Solaris Offgrid – to provide interoperability across their platforms. This created an estimated annual savings of US $700,000 in the sector.
Our work also creates long term, systematic change. The early financial commitment to the D-REC Initiative from EnAccess went on to unlock capital from other leading international organisations to the tune of more than 40x leverage.
Today the D-REC is at the point of disrupting climate funding mechanisms for decentralised energy projects by channelling significant cash flows to off-grid energy access projects. The Open Source backbones of this project are especially important when it comes to accountability and traceability.
Our Impact
The effort we put into one project can easily save twenty times the same effort across the sector. For example, the direct support from EnAccess for the OpenPAYGO Token development and our constant advocacy for its use ultimately caused the leading PAYGO platform providers – Angaza, Paygee, and Solaris Offgrid – to provide interoperability across their platforms. This created an estimated annual savings of US $700,000 in the sector.
Our work also creates long term, systematic change. The early financial commitment to the D-REC Initiative from EnAccess went on to unlock capital from other leading international organisations to the tune of more than 40x leverage.
Today the D-REC is at the point of disrupting climate funding mechanisms for decentralised energy projects by channelling significant cash flows to off-grid energy access projects. The Open Source backbones of this project are especially important when it comes to accountability and traceability.