Recording of Wednesday, May 07, 2025 | The smarter E Europe Conferences 2025 | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 30:01 .

Talk of session: Off-Grid: Rural Electrification Based on Solar Systems - Lessons Learned

Off-grid solar systems are often the least expensive option for rural electrification. Solar home systems can power individual households, while mini-grids can supply entire villages. Each comes with its own advantages, disadvantages, and challenges. The aim of this session is to explore challenges as well as success stories. It takes well-functioning components such as battery systems, charge management and inverters to make projects successful. Proper system sizing, maintenance and repair management, as well as a robust financial concept are also necessary. If one of these elements is missing, the electrification will not be sustainable. This session will focus on the aspects mentioned above. The speakers will present successful and unsuccessful approaches and discuss what can be learned from them.

Further Talks of this session:

Welcome & Introduction

Speaker

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Adelmann
Director
id-eee Institute
Germany

To Talk

Challenges of Rural Electrification

Speaker

Catherine Adelmann
PhD Candidate
University of Applied Science Ulm
Germany

To Talk

Factors That Influence the Success of a Minigrid Project

Speaker

Thomas Kündiger
Chief Technology Manager
Balance of Storage Systems AG
Germany

To Talk

Linking Solar Home Systems to Mini-Grids

Speaker

Felix Boldt
CEO
Solarworx GmbH
Germany

To Talk