12/9/17

IEEE Humanitarian Technology

Promotion Efforts

Role of the Power

& Energy
Society
Keynote: IEEE R-10 HT Conf.
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 December 2017

Saifur Rahman, PhD

President-elect, IEEE Power & Energy Society

IEEE: World’s Largest Professional Association

Advancing Technology for Humanity
Our Global Reach

420,000+ 39 190+
Members Technical Societies Countries

Our Technical Breadth

1,300+ 3,600,000+ 190+

Annual Conferences Technical Documents Top-cited Periodicals

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IEEE Other IEEE
420,000+ members Societies

Founded 1963
IEEE PES 230+
37,000+ members Chapters
Across 10
Current President Global Regions
PES Governing Board includes Damir Novosel
Vice Presidents which oversee Quanta Technology

New Meetings
Initiatives Technical
& Outreach Activities
Publications
Technical
Standing Committees
Committees
Membership &
Image Education Standards Developing Coordinating
Technical Committees Committees

PES initiatives are catalysts to operate the grid better

and to research, develop, and deploy new technologies, necessary
to address grid complexities

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IEEE PES - Growing Globally!

REGION
7 REGION
6% MEMBERSHIP 8
15% MEMBERSHIP

REGION
1 THRU 6 REGION
57% MEMBERSHIP
10
13% MEMBERSHIP

REGION
9
9% MEMBERSHIP

PES is the second-largest society in IEEE

• All-time record of 37,035 members
• Local Chapters – over 230 grassroot interactions
• More than half our members in the US
• Membership growth in Regions 8, 9, 10 has been outstanding

IEEE PES Membership Depth and Breadth

Benefiting from the strength of our
diversity and wide variety of
technical backgrounds:
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• Utilities, Municipalities and
RTOs/ISOs 1-6 10
• Academics and Research
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• Equipment Manufacturers and
System Suppliers
• Government and Regulatory
• Testing Labs, Consulting and more

Our strength is in attracting wide audiences by creating and implementing new

technical ideas and applying best practices through output and initiatives

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“More Power to the Future”

“More Power to the Future”

Over 1,000 Products

40,000+ Visitors in the Past 12 Months
from 158 Countries
• Easy Access to sharing best practices,
education, industry trends, etc.
• Most items FREE for PES Members
Visit: resourcecenter.ieee-pes.org

“More Power to the Future”

“More Power to the Future”
Engage with Our Global Community
qFinancially Sponsored Global Conferences
qInternational and Regional Scopes
q Partnering for Technically co-sponsored conferences
qEmerging Topics
qMore coming:
– Organize industry-focused conferences &
workshops globally (panels, tutorials) 13,500+ 3,400+
– Expand Generation, Transmission, & Attendees Attendees
Distribution Trade Shows, e.g. GTD Latin
America and GTD Asia

170 Attendees

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Origins & Founding: IEEE HTC Strategy

• Goal: Align with UN MDG (later SDG) Goals
• Market-based, sustainable, scalable enterprises (Sachs Model)
• Engineers develop tech solutions, collaborate with NGOs to
demonstrate pilots, hand off to NGOs to develop businesses.
• Results 2010:
• All pilots worked but lacked sustainable business plans
• 2009 parallel community-scale electricity, education &
business model group formed as Community Solutions
Initiative (CSI) Working Group (later ISV)

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2012: Adopted 3 Pillars Model for Success

• 2012 Power Africa Workshop
• Workshop reinforced 3 pillars critical to
sustainable scaling:
• Electricity, Education, Enterprise
• 3 new African NGOs join CSI: Nigeria,
Cameroon, South Sudan
“Without broad
• Headed by newly minted in-country
community-
engineer entrepreneurs
based
• All had DC Microgrid startups underway education,
historically all
• 2014
sustainable
• IEEE Foundation supports IEEE Smart development
Village (ISV) electricity, education & efforts will fail”
business plan goal of scaling to reach
50M people by 2025 - Nobel
Economist
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Amartya Sen et al
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Recent Examples of PES-Sponsored Work

Student Project: Powering a Health Center

in Mountains of Haiti

Delivering Electricity via Micro-Grid (IEEE

PES & Smart Villages)

Education & Enterprise (IEEE PES & Smart

Villages)

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Following the 2010

earthquake in Haiti, many
people still live in tent towns
and without power.

An affordable means of power

is needed to sustain a future
health center compound.

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Over 4,000 Haitians

live in the Mountain
near the Thoman
Village Center –
without access to
clean water, heat fo
cooking, nor electric

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Project Goals
• Design a micro-grid for the integration of PV, batteries and
diesel generator.
• Meet power demand of the Thoman Compound which includes
medical clinic, pharmacy, four dormitories, bathrooms,
missionary home, kitchen and laundry.

• Involve undergraduates and student associations across the

Georgia Tech university community in multi-semester project.
• Stimulate interest in power engineering

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Haiti Project: SunBlazer 2010-12

• SunBlazer Solution Design Principles:
• Standardized, IEEE Open Source system design
• Mobile for instant deployment of SunBlazers,
Portable Battery Kits, LEDs
• Market Surveys:
• Conducted by NGO non-profit or for-profit year in
advance to show feasibility
• User feedback for product; signed up customers
• Business Model:
• NGO designs 10-yr. plan to serve >1M people
• Franchise village entrepreneurs serve 80+ homes
• IEEE raised seed funds ~$300K from IEEE Societies
(NPSS), Region 9, Foundation
• On-ground NGO provides infrastructure, staff
• Results:
• Deployed 15 village systems 2011-12
• Demonstrated sustainable business model serving
1200 homes & 7200 people, created over 30 jobs
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SunBlazer Factory & Staging 2010-2012

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15 Haiti Deployments 6/2011 &

8/2012

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Today

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Recent Examples of PES-Sponsored Work

Student Project: Powering a Health Center

in Mountains of Haiti

Delivering Electricity via Micro-Grid (IEEE

PES & Smart Villages)

Education & Enterprise (IEEE PES & Smart

Villages)

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Achieving global impact, IEEE Smart Village is

dramatically bettering the lives of more than 100,000
off-grid villagers with light and modest power. An
institute-wide humanitarian program supported by
PES and a signature program of the IEEE Foundation.
www.ieee-smart-village.org

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ISV DC/AC Microgrids 1-40kW: Africa, India

Homes, Businesses, Schools, Fans, TV, Clean Water, Agriculture, Milling, Street Lights …

IEEE Smart Village (ISV) Solutions

• Build Collaborations & Reciprocal Learning
• Community - Help to empower as Key Partner, owner
Entrepreneurs – Sustainable Devmt trained (e.g.. MDP)
• Energy authorities - Civic & Government
• Educators - Teachers, administrators, Universities, schools
• “Beyond the Light Bulb” - WASH programs, healthcare,
women’s entrepreneurship, businesses, agriculture
• Investors – Foundations UN, Government, industry, private
• Posner Center for International Development, 80+ NGOs
• Rotary International co-investment partner
• Build Smart Villages
• Help bring prosperity, reverse brain drain to big city slums
and overseas for jobs and education

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Recent Examples of PES-Sponsored Work

Student Project: Powering a Health Center

in Mountains of Haiti

Delivering Electricity via Micro-Grid (IEEE

PES & Smart Villages)

Education & Enterprise (IEEE PES & Smart

Villages)

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Education Systems Pre-K-VoTech (MDP)

Internet/Intranet Education Delivery

In-Country Global Classrooms, Learning Centers, Hospitals etc.
Interactive, server based, digital toolbox, laptops, tablets, projectors

LDWiFi point-to-point 40-

100km Typ.

WiFi Hub 10km Radius Typ.

Internet
Satellite Link
(Desired but
Optional)

Up to 12 Schools
Per LDWiFi Node

Example for Papua New Guinea

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ISV Achievements To Date

The following reflect actual data to end 2016, projections for end
2017-18 Approved = eligible for funding when available.

ITEM YEAR ENDING QUANTITY COMMENTS

Villages Installed 2016 34
Villages Projected 2017 40
Beneficiaries Impacted 2016 70,000
Beneficiaries Projected 2017 100,000
Beneficiaries Projected 2018 200,000
New Starts 2017 8 (Fully funded)
New Approved Projected 2017 3 (Not funded)
New Approved Projected 2018 6 (Not funded)

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ISV Projects – Current & Pending

Country Project/Entre- Year
preneurs
HAITI (Note: Largely lost in Hurricane) 1 2011
NIGERIA 2 2012, 2017
CAMEROON 2 2012, 2017
SOUTH SUDAN 1 2012
ZAMBIA 2 2014, 2016
UGANDA/RWANDA 1 2017
INDIA 3 2015, 2017
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1 2017
SUBTOTAL 13
Applicants Pending: Kenya, Vietnam, India (3), Zimbabwe, 12+ 2017/2018
Ghana (2), Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Bangladesh, Ecuador,
Egypt, Ethiopia
TOTAL PROJECTED END 2018 (Exceeds Plan/Budget!) 25+ 2018

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Thank You

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Prof. Saifur Rahman

www.ieee-pes.org

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