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Factsheet: Gridwatch

Across sub-Saharan Africa, more than half a billion people cannot access electricity, while millions more live with unreliable and intermittent sources of power. Data on power quality at the customer level are limited or nonexistent in these contexts. In response to this challenge, nLine has developed GridWatch, an innovative, low-cost way to measure grid performance and provide estimates of key performance indicators for grid reliability.

Utility companies can use GridWatch data to identify, track, and respond to outages more rapidly; regulators can use the data to monitor utility performance; and donors and governments can use it to better target investments in infrastructure to help deliver reliable power to the communities that need it most.

Explore the GridWatch factsheet–developed with the GridWatch team and USAID’s Research and Technical Assistance Center (RTAC)–to learn more about this exciting innovation.

Areas of work
Technology
Countries
Ghana