Field notes from the operating layer.
Explore the decisions behind distributed-energy operations: maintaining equipment, coordinating field teams and explaining performance. Read each article with its publication date, sources and stated assumptions.
Kilometres, Connections and Hours: What the Global Grids Accelerator Should Count
The Global Grids Accelerator counts what grids need to be built. Nigeria already prices electricity on hours of supply measured at a feeder, and has designed its mini-grid grant to pay on use measured a year after commissioning. That record has to start at energisation.
From Commissioning to Replacement: Six Records Every Asset Reserve Needs
RAMCO can fund replacement from operating revenue only if each asset's identity, use, failures, condition and financial assumptions are recorded from commissioning.
What It Took to Write OPS-1 Down
OPS-1 turns the July argument — records are the asset — into thirteen clauses an owner can write into an O&M agreement. Before anyone read it, a fact-check found six errors in it, one of which the code had already got right, and the limitation that had to get narrower to survive. The discipline is the interesting part.
Grid-Arrival Compensation: How to Build a Defensible Statement
A Schedule 13 evidence checklist and illustrative valuation, separating published rules, asset-scope interpretation and assumptions requiring approval.
Nigeria's Distributed Energy Software Stack: A Sourced Buyer's Guide
A non-exhaustive guide to programme workflows, metering, equipment visibility, dispatch and portfolio operations, with dated sources and evidence labels.
60 Business Days: Why Mini-Grid Records Matter When the Grid Arrives
The records behind a mini-grid transition: asset costs, funding, revenue and service history, with a practical ownership checklist.
Edge AI for Rural Mini-Grids: What Must Keep Working Offline
What continues during a communications outage: equipment protection, local records, advisory and explicitly authorised control.
Performance-Based Pricing for Mini-Grid Operations: What a Fair Agreement Needs
A worked shared-savings example with baseline rules, service conditions, measurement costs and a dispute process.
What Global Performance Platforms Can Teach Nigerian Mini-Grid Operators
What performance assurance, optimisation and inspection models can teach Nigerian operators—and how to test the handoffs between tools.
The Technician Bottleneck: Make the First Site Visit Count
Better diagnostics, confirmed parts and offline work orders can reduce wasted journeys. A practical checklist for preparing the first site visit.
Predictive Maintenance for Mini-Grids: From Early Warning to Completed Repair
How to turn an early warning into a completed repair, compare incident costs fairly, and test whether prediction improves outcomes.
Scaling a Mini-Grid Fleet: Build the Operations Team Before You Need It
A practical staffing worksheet for a growing mini-grid fleet, with explicit workload assumptions and a clear division between people, contractors and software.