Amar Inamdar: The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy
عمار انامدار: المستقبل الخارق للطاقة الشمسية اللوحية اللاسلكية
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really incredible happening.
whatsoever across the world,
each household up to the grid.
لتوصل الطاقة إلى البيوت
it takes about nine years, on average,
when you're trying to make that happen.
وأنا أحاول تحسين الوضع
that you have an energy system
it's not just about the lightbulb,
ليس ففط عن المصباح الكهربائي،
that goes with that lightbulb,
الذي يشمل المصباح الكهربائي،
has now started to emulate.
you need to have power stations.
عليك أن تملك محطات توليد الطاقة.
you need to have infrastructure,
تحتاج إلي البنيات الأساسية،
to the point of having electricity,
and the appliances
is that there's a revolution happening
all around us here in East Africa.
of the cell phone revolution.
and it's about distributed solar.
وتوزيع الطاقة الشمسية
to be sufficient for every household need.
hasn't been there to make it happen,
that we have to have the grid
and create jobs and industrialize.
وزيادة فرص العمل والتصنيع.
of building these grids
that all of the utilities run in Africa,
في جميع الخدمات التي تواجه أفريقيا،
of 21 billion dollars every year
to wait a very long time for,
with sufficient robustness
that path to development.
we should all get excited about.
at this problem over the last 10 years,
that there's a great big nuclear reactor
with that solar power
to convert some of that solar power,
من هذه الطاقة الشمسية،
at the household level.
إلى طاقة تستخدم في البيوت.
at the same time.
productivity have come down.
and generating power from it,
over the last 30 years,
على مدار 30 سنة،
that we've all gotten used to,
we all see as part of our everyday lives
فنعتبره جزءً من حياتنا اليومية
for example, a very simple thing,
than they were five years ago,
من سعره منذ 5 سنوات سابقة،
compare them to an incandescent bulb,
in the previous slide,
في الشريحة السابقة،
the amount of light,
is of course the cell phone revolution,
off the cell phone revolution,
customers make small payments
كميات مالية صغيرة
over a daily or a weekly schedule.
in the economy that's happening,
something very, very innovative.
to a lady I met with last week.
of a $27 billion market.
like Susan spend every year
أشخاص مثل سوزان كل سنة
to light their homes.
of a small solar system.
نظام متواضع للطاقة الشمسية.
allows her to have a couple of lightbulbs,
يجعلها تملك عدة مصابيح،
this jump, from kerosene into light.
من الكيروسين إلى النور.
at night because she has light.
في الليل لأنها تملك نور.
the kids feel about that.
go out at 4am and look after the cows,
الساعة 4 صباحاً،
twinkle in her eye,
turns her house into a home at night.
إلى مسكن في الليل.
of her own house at night,
and I thought that was amazing.
that many customers of these companies
"I've got the radio and the lights.
"أملك الراديو والأنوار".
educate me and my kids.
some hair clippers for my kids,
and I'd love to have a fridge.
is really hungry to do.
is the energy ladder.
that we can get our kids to do homework,
أن نجعل أطفالنا يقومون بفروضهم المنزلية
maybe a little flashlight,
وكشاف نور صغير،
"So where is this headed?"
" إلى أين هذا ذاهب"
to provide power
that I think is really exciting.
for one of the world's biggest factories,
لواحد من أكبر المصانع في العالم،
and fully off grid.
على الطاقة الشمسية، والألواح.
and creating thousands of jobs,
ويخلقون الآلاف من الوظائف،
of these solar systems,
من هذه الأنظمة الشمسية،
of families into light,
that I talked about at the beginning,
التي تحدثت عنها في الأول،
they're not only energy companies,
people into an economy.
to people in the connecting markets.
extraordinary products
is happening out there
from a social perspective,
energy access for everybody,
a fully-functioning low-carbon economy.
where we're seeing
getting people onto the grid,
الجميع باستخدام الألواح،
that's really dignified.
to picture it for a moment,
just about subsistence power,
of appliances and tools
that we've all gotten used to,
that can drive industrial development.
powerful tools.
in the households, as a farmer,
and bring you into the economy.
a couple of days ago with a farmer
that's run off solar,
تعمل بالطاقة الشمسية،
how much of a difference it made
we were asking ourselves,
an electric scooter off your rooftop
yourself, using your own power?
that's happening,
this extraordinary sense of dignity
achieving their power,
and the sense of pride,
into a little tiny video clip,
of these companies that I'm talking about.
than anyone I've ever heard it.
that we get to a point
independent supply of energy,
when they want to switch it on or off,
or whether they want to store it.
into the hands of the consumer,
That was Martin,
هذا مارتين،
wonderful turn of phrase,
that he captures.
as well as consumer of energy ...
to share power, to sell power,
sitting on your own property.
crowdsourcing with your neighbors
مع الجيران
to bring it from the top down.
من الأعلـى إلى الأسفل
extraordinary opportunity right now,
and create an energy system
as the innovators of.
what are the key roadblocks right now?
ما أهم العوائق التي نواجها الآن؟
the intermittency of solar power.
only shines for 12 hours a day,
لمدة 12 ساعة في اليوم،
take us down that path.
are coming down very quickly.
with the appliance set.
opportunity there, Chris.
21 billion dollars of subsidies
قدرها 21 مليار دولار
on the current electricity system
على النظام الكهربائي الحالي
and make this happen.
from supplying that demand?
what they can currently sell.
ما يبيعون حاليًا.
of these capitals,
consumer risk very well,
مخاطر المستهلك جيدًا
coming into this space
look at this space and say,
so I'm going to stay away from it."
فسأبتعد عنه."
a lot of these companies back.
to picture what could happen here.
ما سيحدث هنا.
the biggest leapfrog of them all.
and for sharing that vision
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Amar Inamdar - Investor, entrepreneurAmar Inamdar works with businesses and entrepreneurs to imagine, create and grow markets that address our biggest social and environmental challenges.
Why you should listen
Amar Inamdar is an investor, advisor and entrepreneur from East Africa. He is the Managing Director of an investment fund focused on the transformation of energy markets in eastern Africa. His goal is to scale world-class companies that bring clean power to millions of underserved customers and drive economic growth.
Inamdar brings more than 20 years of experience of building teams, markets and businesses in emerging economies. He managed a global portfolio of high-risk, high-impact projects for 10 years at the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank before joining the new business team at Royal Dutch Shell to drive growth in domestic African energy markets. He brings the hands-on experience of working with the boards and management teams of emerging market companies to scale and grow. He worked on transformative projects in India, Nepal, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and the Philippines. In the early 2000s, Inamdar was the founder of a UK-based advisory firm, building the team and creating a values-driven business that is still successful, 17 years later.
Inamdar graduated from the University of Oxford and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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