Smart Financing African Smart Cities 

As they work to close the infrastructure gap, city governments in developing economies must strongly consider smart infrastructure solutions, which use advanced technologies to deliver works and services to citizens. Because they help cities operate faster, more effectively, and more efficiently, smart infrastructure solutions help governments leapfrog common traditional infrastructure options and common service delivery constraints. Thus, as project teams help craft infrastructure delivery business models, and then prepare the related procurement structures, they should consider the technological implications of the project—ensuring the project will create value over the long term. 

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Smart Energy

a cost-effective, sustainable and secure energy system in which renewable energy production, infrastructures and consumption are integrated and coordinated through energy services, active users and enabling technologies.

Smart Off-Grid Africa Power

Smart Off-Grid provides a way for off-grid systems to be monitored, managed and controlled remotely. Built-in, low-cost wireless communications in solar, wind and hybrid-powered devices send critical data to a cloud-based management system in real-time.

Smart Energy In Africa

 Smart Energy System is defined by the following key principals:

• It is a 100% renewable energy system
• It consumes a sustainable level of bioenergy
• It utilizes the synergies in the energy system to maximize efficiency and reduce costs
• It is affordable. In other words, it does not significantly increase the cost of energy compared to a fossil fuel-based energy system (sometimes it can reduce the cost and maximum increases of up to 10-15% are expected)

Smart Roof Tops For Home And Business

 Rooftop PV at a national level it 
– reduces the requirement of land for solar Power
 – reduces the need for additional transmission infrastructure 
• For consumers, it 
– reduces the dependency on grid power
 – mitigates diesel generator dependency
 – long term reliable power source 
• For Discoms, it reduces
– day Peak load Demand
 – T&D and conversion losses
 • Most suitable for commercial establishments 
– Max generation during the peak usage time
 – Solar power cost is close to the commercial power cost 
– Solar power cost is fixed for 25 years 

Smart Villages

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

The need for electrical energy supply in off-grid or temporarily off-grid areas of the developing world is becoming increasingly significant. Different sizes of applications are implemented, starting at the micro scale level of households and small communities, but also scaling up to more energy intensive applications such as small business, workshops or even small factories. An overall improvement of the living conditions of local communities is achieved by providing energy access and also by strengthening local economies and creating income sources

Our Story

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

Our Story

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

Smart Africa RE Technologies

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

Smart Agriculture

Agribusiness

Agriculture and agribusiness account for 32 percent of GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa and employs 65 percent of the workforce. It is likely to have a bigger impact on poverty reduction than in other sectors as it offers the most direct route of raising returns to poor people’s main assets, i.e. land and labor. We support project owners businesses to establish a new activity or expand existing businesses across the value chain, as long as the primary beneficiaries of the businesses are rural households living on less than US$ 2 per day. 

What areas does African Smart Cities support?

Accessible Innovations for Smallholders: We work with lenders that invest in businesses that have the potential to reach smallholder farmers to improve agricultural productivity and increase household income and food security. We work in a wide range of value chains and production systems to increase access to better quality agricultural inputs, improved seeds varieties and livestock vaccines, introduce new farming systems and agribusiness models. 

Scaling Up Innovative Businesses: Smart African Cities acts as the missing link between agricultural research and smallholder farmers by financing the commercialization of new technologies where others will not. Key investment areas include new fertilizers, vaccines, integrated pest management, disease-resistant crops, and soil testing.

Post Conflict and the Fragile Countries: Post-conflict and fragile countries face particular challenges but the private sector is a key player in supporting the reconstruction of agribusinesses in these countries. With other sources of capital largely absent, 

Open data and media to increase productivity: African Smart cities supports low-cost communication technologies and business models for information and data sharing that can reach a large audience and provide information to smallholder farmers enabling them to improve agricultural productivity and incomes.

Promoting Financial Inclusion and Mobile Finance: African Smart Cities supports projects that use mobile money systems, create local financing mechanisms, introduce weather-based insurance and establish credit systems. This improves agricultural productivity and household incomes. It also establishes non-collateral credit scoring for smallholders that enable them to access formal financial systems in the future.

Solar Water Pumping

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

Smart Foreign Direct Investments

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

Smart Housing

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

Smart Municipalities

By 2030, 600 million out of the 674 million people in the world still without access to electricity will live in sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of them in rural areas. 
The International Energy Agency - Poverty to Prosperity (2017)

It is estimated that a minimum of about 1,000 KWh/year of dependable energy per household is required to provide the necessary conditions for economic development for consumers in rural communities. To achieve this, power facilities will need to include a hybrid of renewables, dispatchable generators and energy storage, and these community energy installations will be monitored and controlled by a smart microgrid controller to maximise the efficiency of the resources. At African Smart Cities we propose a radical solution to this challenge, which is to deploy smart microgrids, and the associated generation and distribution facilities, in such a way that it can be provided significantly by local communities themselves.This results not only in lowering of costs but also simultaneously in an increase in local jobs and services, creating self sufficiency locally and stimulating economic development wherever possible.

Smart Water

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

Smart Financing

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

African Smart Cities

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.

Smart Solar Energy 

Like all great things, we started small. We took a few like-minds with a shared vision—and ran with it. Today, we’ve grown into something big.