Prospect Energy

What if you had an open source and free of charge data platform that automatically aggregates, verifies and visualizes different sources of energy data?

Aggregation, Validation and Verification

Any data source, from Excel sheets to automated APIs can be aggregated, validated and verified in Prospect.

Welcome to Prospect

Prospect is an open source data platform for the energy access sector that allows you to customize data flows coming from ongrid, minigrid and offgrid sources. Brought to you by the Access to Energy Institute (A2EI) and GET.invest. Free of charge.

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Prospect Features

Aggregation, Validation and Verification

Prospect allows for automatic aggregation, validation, and verification of data coming from different sources into one platform.

Fully Customizable Visualization

Dashboards can be fully customized to cater to individualized information needs: complex data is visualized to allow for data-driven decisions.

Monitoring

Remote monitoring of energy solutions in Prospect reduces costs and increases service quality.

Reporting & Analysis

Prospect allows for automatic reporting, evaluation, and learning from the performance of energy solutions, and transparently summarizes data.

Prospect highlights

Validated & verified data

Key to achieving sustainable energy access for all

Data privacy & security

Data usage rights remain with the data owner at all times, no collection or processing of personal data

Simple & intuitive

Prospect provides a guided data import wizzard that simplifies and automates loading data into the platform

Compelling visualizations

Powerful graphical comparisons of energy solutions, technical data & impact metrics

Open source

No proprietary software needed, no licensing fees need to be paid, Prospect can be installed locally

Free of charge

No hidden fees or costs

Prospect data import

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Prospect will guide you through the data input step by step with our data ingestion wizzard.

HOW TO GET YOUR DATA INTO PROSPECT?

Prospect offers an easy-to-use data ingestion process, whether the data comes from an Excel Sheet, a database or for example from the API of the smart meter you are using to collect information.

Ready to start?

Sign-up here for free and display your data on Prospect right away.

What people say about Prospect

Justin Mukosa

Manager Corporate Affairs, Zambia Rural Electrification Authority (REA)

"REA Zambia is proud to be one of the first official users of Prospect. The data platform allows us transparent access to high quality and verified data. This contributes to the optimization of our ambitious electrification strategy, and enables us to secure long-term financing. We believe that availability of data is key to swift scaling up and increased uptake of renewable off-grid energy projects in Africa."

Anders Arvidson

Team leader Power Africa, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

"Sida has come to rely ever more on accurate, reliable and up-to-date data in our program planning and decision-making in the energy sector. With Prospect, we are investing in taking our existing efforts to the next level. We are thrilled to see this partnership between A2EI and GET.invest. This will also leverage GET.invest’s deep network and experience in advising and mobilizing investment for off-grid projects and companies."

Hannah Kabir

CEO Creeds Energy

"Prospect is allowing us to report on the technical performance of the hundreds of systems we have installed, associated repayment patterns, and impact - all in a few clicks and free of charge. This is key to convince financiers of the viability of the business case and helpful for the generation of carbon credits."

Thomas Samuel

President & Founder, Sunna Design

"Prospect is a key enabler for Moon’s long-term strategy to partner with governments on their universal access strategies. Data and transparency will be key for successful public and private partnerships. This will unlock appropriate subsidies and infrastructure type financing needed in the sector."

The Team

Who works behind the scenes?

The A2EI in-house team bringing you Prospect is a group of experienced and seasoned software and data experts. On top, they understand what your business is and what you need - because they have vast experience in the on-the-ground energy access sector, with real customers.

What we strive for...

Our team focuses on cutting-edge technology and takes data privacy and security very seriously. We are committed to genuine open-source and passionate about providing efficient solutions to achieve universal energy access and mitigate climate change. Being not-for-profit allows us to provide our products and service free of charge.

Spotlight

How Prospect helps communities around the world:

REA Zambia - monitoring Zambia´s rural electrification progress

The Rural Electrification Authority of Zambia (REA) uses Prospect to monitor its full portfolio of electrification projects, making detailed data available to report accurately on progress, allowing remote monitoring of installations and effective oversight of contractors.

Ministry of Health of Benin - “Solar4Clinics” to calibrate health center systems

Within the “Solar4Clinics” project, the Access to Energy Institute has partnered with the Ministry of Health of Benin and GIZ (German Development Cooperation) Benin to install smart meters on healthcare facilities to gather data to evaluate the energy needs of these facilities over an extended period of time.

Solar Generators in Nigeria – Carbon Credit Finance assists replacing fossil fuel gensets

Prospect visualizes the impact of solar systems replacing fossil fuel gensets in Nigeria and automatically calculates carbon mitigation. The environmental benefit becomes an economical benefit if carbon credits can be paid out automatically, thus contributing to scaling.

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Want to be part of the open source community?

We aim to create a lively and interactive development community around Prospect, allowing for innovative and individual use cases. Join our Prospect development community and add the functionality that is needed by your project.

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