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

Aggregation, Validation and Verification

Prospect allows you to automatically aggregate data coming from different sources into one platform.

Benefit:

The relative contribution of ongrid, minigrid, and offgrid connections to the success of an electrification strategy is immediately visible. The silo approach which tends to separate ongrid, minigrid and offgrid data streams is overcome. Prospect also validates and verifies the incoming data.

Fully Customizable Visualization

Fully Customizable Visualization

Prospect enables you to see where exactly the different energy sources (ongrid, minigrid, offgrid) are available in your town/region/country. Any energy solution, including productive use appliances and clean cooking devices can be shown. Various metrics ranging from technical, maintenance data, impact and financial details can be visualized.

Benefit:

Displaying location and concentrations of energy solutions gives viewers an intuitive understanding of the current energy supply situation. Dashboards can be fully customized to cater to individualized information needs. Complex data is visualized to allow for data-driven decisions.

Monitoring

Monitoring

Prospect is typically connected to every energy solution it collects data on, thus allowing you to remotely monitor the systems from your desk. Both technical and payment data, for example, can be analyzed in real time.

Benefit:

Remote monitoring gives you a real time assessment of the energy solutions you are responsible for and allows you to intervene, e.g., by adjusting your financial, maintenance, or product development planning.

Reporting & Analysis

Reporting & Analysis

Prospect continuously and automatically enables you to report on, evaluate and learn from the performance of the energy solutions. Prospect transparently summarizes whatever data you would want to report on automatically.

Benefit:

Prospect can directly compute the efficiency, financial viability and impact of your energy solutions, thereby proving its effectiveness and helping you leverage additional funding. Reporting becomes an automated and 100% transparent process and does not require field visits anymore. Reporting becomes less costly while being more precise.

Prospect highlights

Validated & verified data

Validated & verified data

key to achieving sustainable energy access for all

Data privacy & security

Data privacy & security

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

Simple & intuitive

Simple & intuitive

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

Compelling visualizations

Compelling visualizations

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

Open source

Open source

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

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.

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What people say about Prospect

Justin Mukosa
Justin Mukosa

Manager Corporate Affairs at the Zambian Rural Electrification Authority

"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
Anders Arvidson

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

"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, and with Prospect we are investing in taking our existing efforts to the next level."
Hannah Kabir
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
Thomas Samuel

President & Founder Sunna Design

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

The Team

Who works behind the scenes?

Who works behind the scenes?

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

What we strive for...

Our team focuses on cutting-edge technology, takes data privacy/security very seriously, is committed to genuine open-source and is passionate to provide good and efficient solutions for climate change mitigation and energy access. Being non-for-profit allows us to bring you the service free of charge.

Spotlight

How Prospect helps people around the world:

REA Zambia - monitoring Zambia´s rural electrification progress

REA Zambia - monitoring Zambia´s rural electrification progress

The Rural Electrification Authority of Zambia 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

Ministry of Health of Benin

Within the “Solar4Clinics” project, the Access to Energy Institute has partnered with the Ministry of Health of Benin and GIZ Benin to install smart meters on healthcare facilities to gather data to evaluate the energy needs of these facilities over a period of time…

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

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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