Market Intelligence
In 2018, NoMAP partnered with Fraym to collect relevant market data to increase solar home system deployment across 20 states in Nigeria. This initiative built on efforts from NoMAP’s initiative to address market data gaps for solar home systems companies. NoMAP gathered and shared critical market data needs on electrification status, credit worthiness, willingness to pay, availability of collections/payment channels, SHS companies footprint.
Using Fraym’s satellite imagery, NoMAP identified over 700 viable SHS communities and refined these to 262 verified sites in 20 states using clear criteria high model confidence, security feasibility, and exclusion of urban centers. NoMAP led the field verification surveys, validating Fraym’s geospatial predictions and feeding insights back to improve Fraym’s data models and web platform.
Granular market data was collected and analyzed using a customized survey application to support mini-grid development in 105 off-grid communities in Nasarawa, Oyo, and Kwara. Furthermore, energy audits and baseline surveys were conducted in five markets to support the REA’s Energizing Economies Initiative (EEI). The dataset obtained was hosted on a web platform supported by Fraym, and used to inform REA and World Bank’s Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP), detailing lists of viable off-grid communities suitable for mini-grid development.
Outcomes
- Identified over 15,000 communities viable for mini-grid and SHS deployment across 20 states in Nigeria. The analyzed data was stored in the web-based platform
- Surveyed 150+ viable mini-grid communities with field enumerators to collect granular data to support mini-grid development. These sites are currently in use by the REA and under tender for the Minimum Subsidy Tender initiative of the NEP
- Highlighted >50 Potentially Viable Communities for Interconnected Mini-grids
- Provided subsidies for SHS companies interested in the full subscription of dataFraym to gain data insights to support energy access delivery and market expansion
Delivered a free web portal hosted on REA’s website that identifies viable mini-grid and SHS communities across 10 Nigerian states
Companies, investors, and policymakers need help in making informed decisions on site selection in the off-grid sector due to insufficient market data. Data that exists is often in silos and, market players do not know where to turn to get critical information, increasing the cost needed to invest ever more resources in prospecting for viable sites to develop mini-grids and deploy SHS. Building credible market data reduces the information gap faced by both private developers and financiers in deploying off-grid energy systems.
The dataset obtained was hosted on a web platform supported by Fraym, and used to inform REA and World Bank’s Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP), detailing lists of viable off-grid communities suitable for mini-grid development. Additionally, 51 communities in Nasarawa, Kwara, Oyo, and Edo states were identified as potentially viable for Interconnected Mini-Grid development and this data was shared with developers applying for the Inter-Connected Mini-grid Acceleration Scheme (IMAS).
Granular market data was collected and analyzed using a customized survey application to support mini-grid development in 105 off-grid communities in Nasarawa, Oyo, and Kwara. Furthermore, energy audits and baseline surveys were conducted in five markets to support the REA’s Energizing Economies Initiative (EEI).
