Going for Negawatts

A negawatt is a negative megawatt: a megawatt of power saved by increasing efficiency or reducing consumption and efficient use of energy is a no brainer when aiming to tackle climate change.

Create an innovative solution that can help residential, commercial and industrial sectors use their energy more efficiently. It can be either product or service leveraging digital technology and big data analytics. Put the user at the centre and create an awesome user experience, together with a simple way to deploy the solution.

SDG Energy and Identity - Spoof-proof Electricity Bills

Lykke is aiming to develop a blockchain-based, secure and spoof-proof solution for electricity bill presentation and settlement in one go which addresses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) energy payments and identity. Use a blockchain token and mobile wallet to simulate bill presentation or prepaid payments with an audit track history that ideally includes the geo-location of the user.

Demonstrate how a blockchain based currency/token and system can be used for mobile payments of energy and building a recordable history of payments in the wallet. For example, simulate a production schedule of energy over some period of time monthly, weekly etc. in kWhs and a rate $/KWh, create a bill record on mobile device and show how it’s paid.         

Microgrids - Data Sharing

 Microgrids are discrete electric energy systems with distributed - often renewable - energy sources and loads, and they are capable of operating independently from the main power grid. For isolated communities in Southeast Asia, microgrids represent a viable and green alternative to the traditional centralized power grid.

Develop a software solution that engages potential mini grid users to share their data (i.e energy demand, user profile, types of uses, location) with developers, allowing the developers to identify markets and better understand the needs of their potential customers.

Advance Solar Rooftops

PEA is supporting the transition from fossil fuel generated electricity to clean, renewable solar with a focus on the residential segment (solar rooftops). Currently, there is a lack of education and awareness of the benefits of going solar.

Develop an application that promotes, educates and encourages people to take action to use their roofs to go solar. Focus on the economic benefits, safety and sustainability.

Electric Vehicles and Grid Storage

As prices for lithium ion batteries and other storage chemistries continue to plummet the cost effectiveness of all types of electric vehicles and stationary storage that provides renewable energy support will become increasingly apparent.  These price declines are expected to accelerate as manufacturing capacity  increases and price reductions MAY allow electric vehicles to reduce air pollution  while allowing renewables to provide base-load power across the region.

Develop a business model in Southeast Asia that leverages the falling cost of storage and empowers consumers, utilities and energy stakeholders while improving air quality and renewable energy generation.

 Empower the Crowd 

Off-grid renewable energy projects aims to replace diesel generators on islands with clean energy hybrid systems (solar, wind, batteries, etc). However, project developers need to know local diesel prices to understand their competition. Diesel prices on islands vary greatly from mainland prices. The more remote, the higher the price and the more difficult to get the information. GIZ is currently collecting diesel prices on islands in Thailand via a typeform questionnaire sent to local shop owners via Line. The results are collected in a table.

The challenge is to design and program a better and less frictioned way to retrieve data regarding diesel prices from the local population. The challenge also includes how to display the data obtained (e.g. on a website) but also to feedback aggregated results to the locals from which the data was obtained.

Digitization and the IoT reaches people’s homes and allows them to tap energy efficiency and renewable energy potentials. Companies are starting to integrate smart home features including security automation, net-zero energy houses, demand response, elderly care, electric vehicle charging, solar power production in an intelligent and appealing way. However, many potential customers in Southeast Asia are not yet aware of these solutions.

 
Design an engaging application that promotes the benefits of smart homes to residential customers and allows them to learn about costs and benefits. Consider gamification!

As more and more renewable energy generation and energy storage systems come online, our energy grid will become a patchwork of large legacy power plants and microgrids powered by distributed energy resources. With the help of the right technologies, such a decentralized system could deliver energy more efficiently and reliably.

 
Come up with a design that empowers utilities, small power producers, and other asset operators to manage this new grid in a better way and provide cleaner energy at fair prices.

Record solar generation data on a blockchain.
Investors and solar project developers need verified solar energy production to certify financial agreements, monitor equipment, verify facility integrity or possibly for consumer billing purposes in the future. Public blockchains serve the purpose of providing trustworthy and immutable records and can be used for such purposes.

 
Write a script or program to record solar generation data (using or adhering as closely as possible to international data standards such as those from sunspec.org or IEEE) to record periodic data from a robust monitoring device or data logger onto the solarcoin blockchain. The data should be visible in a block explorer or be easily decrypted.