Completed Projects
The Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund has supported 35 organisations with over £5 million in funding and facilitated a further £1.5m to 12 electric cooking projects with funding from UK aid. Here are the completed projects
The Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund was launched in November 2018 and aims to accelerate innovation in off-grid and weak grid appliance technologies.
Efficiency for Access is investing funding into research and development (R&D) projects with the aim to accelerate the availability, affordability, efficiency and performance of a range of low energy inclusive appliances that are particularly suited to developing country contexts and promote social inclusion.
Launched in 2018, there have been three calls for funding: the Open Call, the Cooling Call and the Enabling Technologies Call. Some of our projects have now been successfully completed, with the impacts of the projects measured.
Open Call:
Agsol
MicroMill, a solar-powered, small-scale mill.
Bboxx
Affordable, solar-powered irons for Sub-Saharan Africa
Innovex Uganda
Using Iot to revolutionise off-grid appliances
Solaris Offgrid:
OpenPAYGO link to increase interoperability of off-grid appliances and solar home systems
The Sure Chill Company:
Improved controls for off-grid domestic refrigerators
Cooling Call:
Devidayal Solar Solutions
Truck-mounted, solar refrigerators to enable local farmers in India to reach new markets
Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica - University of Coimbra
Retrofitting refrigerators to create an affordable, energy efficient cooling solution
Phase Change Material Products LTD
Sust-Fridge, designed to attain low temperatures in off- and weak-grid settings
Off-grid cold rooms: A game-changing development for local smallholder farmers
Enabling Technologies Call:
Angaza
Standards-based software for secure communication between off-grid devices.
Jirogasy
Improving digital education throughout Madagascar
Omnivoltaic
Easily discoverable hardware-to-cloud link