CLEAN ENERGY ACCESS
FOR THE POOREST 3 BILLION
A S U S TA I N A B L E M A R K E T B A S E D A P P R O A C H
USING THE INTERNET OF THINGS
www.projectsurya.org
CONTACT:
Tara Ramanthan, Program Manager
[email protected]
Sponsors & Partners
Ed and Joy Frieman, Former Director of Scripps
Ellen Lehman & Charles Kennel, Former NASA
Administrator of Earth Sciences
Radhika Malpani, Former Head of Image Search,
Google
Leslie & Mac McQuown, Developed first index
fund
Henning Rodhe, Member, Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences
Durwood Zaelke, President, IGSD
3 MILLION die each year from
breathing harmful cooking smoke
inside their homes.
IMPROVED clean cookstoves
eliminate life-threatening soot
and other toxic pollutants.
SURYA CREATES A NEW MARKET MECHANISM IN 4,000 HOMES
• Our approach integrates natural and social sciences with cuttingedge wireless sensors to address a century old scientific/societal
problem of access to clean cooking technology for three billion
people still depending on 18th century technologies.
• The sensor-enabled ‘smart stoves’ enable a climate financing
mechanism to reward each rural woman directly with payments for
mitigating reductions in CO2 and black carbon emissions, thus
removing a major barrier for access to clean technologies.
• The aggregation of the sensor data opens new doors for
understanding behavioral patterns on massive scales without using
tedious and unreliable surveys.
• Surya has rapidly iterated and improved this model since 2009.
THE TIME IS NOW:
IMPROVED COOKSTOVES MAKE UP $25-50 BILLION MARKET*
• The Paris Agreement
Commits $100 Billion a Year
to Climate Financing
• Breakthrough Energy
Coalition Commits $1 billion
for clean energy innovation
*Pachauri et al, Pathway to Achieve Universal Household Energy Access by 2030
BUT THE MARKET FACES A KNOWLEDGE GAP…
…Are these interventions
achieving the intended results?
WE CAN CLOSE THE GAP WITH WIRELESS SENSORS
StoveTrace is Nexleaf Analytics’ award-winning platform for wireless,
real-time monitoring of cookstove usage. StoveTrace combines robust
wireless sensors with powerful cloud-based analytics to facilitate data-driven
decision making and responsive interventions.
WITH OVER 1 YEAR OF MONITORING IN HUNDREDS OF HOMES
Village 1
Village 2
• Each row
represents a
household
• Each column is
a day of the
month
• StoveTrace has
collected over 2
million hours of
data logged from
29 villages
STOVETRACE CAN ENABLE LEARNING FOR IMPACT
Finding
• High Stove Users (> 2 hours/day)
sustained high usage over time.
• However, only 13% of households fell
into this category in the original
sample (Cohort 1).
More high users in Cohort 2
than in Cohort 1
Action
Impact
• StoveTrace allowed distributors to
target high user communities in a
subsequent effort (Cohort 2).
• As a result, the number of high users
in Cohort 2 was double the number
in Cohort 1.
STOVETRACE CAN IMPROVE POST-SALES SUPPORT
“Most rural villagers do not have the concept of requesting support, so they will
either try fixing the stove themselves, which is not sustainable because it will keep
breaking, or they will give up and return to their life-threatening stove.”
-Feedback from NGO’s and Cookstove Implementers
House 1
House 2
House 3
House 4
House 5
stove broken
stove fixed
• Action: StoveTrace’s live dashboard allowed
technicians to find and fix broken stoves.
STOVETRACE CAN OFFSET THE COST OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
WITH RESULTS-BASED FINANCING
The Climate Credit Pilot Project (C2P2) aims to increase affordability and
adoption of the cleanest cookstoves through rewarding the end users directly
with climate credit payments.
AS OF JANUARY 2016:
•
3,865 households enrolled
with loans from rural banks
owned by Gov’t of India
•
Action: StoveTrace allowed
households in 29 villages in
Odisha, India to receive
direct payments
•
Women are earning
$6/ton CO2eq, which can
add up to $32/year
*
*Climate Fund = Carbon Credits for CO2 + Black Carbon
ENABLING NEW CLIMATE MARKET MECHANISMS
Project Surya partners with Gold Standard Foundation to develop a new
methodology for Black Carbon
•
Climate credits that include
both CO2 and Black Carbon
can offset the cost of the
new technologies in less
than two years
•
Using EPA’s social cost of
carbon of $40/ton, each
woman can earn up to USD
$212/year
- Ramanathan et al., 2016
WE LEVERAGE MOBILE BANKING TO PAY WOMEN DIRECTLY
Mpesa has proved successful in Kenya for providing financial inclusion to the
population at large. By connecting StoveTrace with mobile money, women can
receive their results-based financing more immediately.
Mobile Money May Increase Stove Use
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Average Daily Household
Cooking Duration (Hours)
4.5
Time
First mobile banking
customer registered
STOVETRACE IS POISED FOR SCALE
WITH CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS
AND INCREASING CUSTOMER REQUESTS
50,000 sensors by 2018
10,000 by 2017
2,000 by 2016
Note: These are potential customers in the pipeline
GAINING COMMERCIAL VIABILITY THROUGH
INTEGRATED PARTNERSHIPS
StoveTrace 1.0
StoveTrace 2.0 with Intel
ULTIMATELY INCREASING AND SCALING CLEAN STOVE ADOPTION
“Making tea for the visitors and cooking faster without smoke are
the most significant shift in my cooking history.”
~ Kandhei from Odisha, India
(Average Stove Use >4 hours/day)
3 Month-long Stove Usage Plot on Cloud-Based Server
AND KEEPING THE DATA OPEN FOR THE PUBLIC
Snapshot from live StoveTrace website
See demo at: stovetrace.org/stovetrace
Username and Password: demo
OUR SENSORS CAN IDENTIFY AND SCALE THE BEST
STOVES TO THE POOREST 3 BILLION…
BIOMASS AND CHARCOAL COOKSTOVES
MARTIN, HOLLINGSWORTH AND RAMANATHAN, 2014
Action: With C2P2, women are now
beginning to demand better performing
stoves that will work.
OUR PATH TO SCALE
PHASE 1: Technology and Program Innovation
• 2014 to Q1, 2016; almost complete
• 5000 households with 500 households instrumented with StoveTrace sensors;
piloting mobile payments in a small number of homes.
PHASE 2: Program Scale
• Q2, 2016-2018
• 10k households with low-cost StoveTrace sensors; mobile payments to all homes.
PHASE 3: Program Replication
• Q4, 2016-onwards
• 1 million households connected to a carbon market; automated mobile payments
based on sensor data.
SURYA VISION:
CREATING A BLACK CARBON HOLE AND
EMPOWERING WOMEN WITH CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES.
WITH YOUR SUPPORT, SURYA IS READY TO
SCALE UP TO ONE MILLION COOKSTOVES.