We believe everyone deserves reliable infrastructure

Lack of stable infrastructure is unfairly holding back huge portions of the world’s population from running businesses, preparing food, and accessing safe and reliable healthcare.

We care deeply about bringing the benefits of modern systems, inclusive decision-making, and open information to everyone.

Founded at UC Berkeley,
now a global team

In 2017, nLine started in the Electrical Engineering department of University of California, Berkeley where Josh and Noah, two of our co-Founders received their PhDs, and Prabal, our third co-founder, is a faculty member. Since then, we’ve grown both in Berkeley and across the globe with a talented team of people.

Working with the garage door open

Drawing from our academic roots, we try to publish everything we learn - from papers, to conferences, to blog posts. We always love to get in touch with others pushing towards similar goals.

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Olufolahan Osunmuyiwa and Margaret Odero

Leveraging Power Quality and Reliability Measurements for Electricity Equity and Justice in sub-Saharan Africa

In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), power quality and reliability (PQR) inequities and vulnerabilities remain a significant barrier to achieving equitable electricity access, especially in rapidly urbanizing areas. Poor PQR, a product of aging and lossy electrical grids, encompasses both frequent and long power outages and poor voltage quality and are anecdotally known to disproportionately affect low-income households and marginalized communities in urban spaces. To address PQR inequities, researchers and policymakers often rely on normative theories of energy justice, capability approach and multidimensional poverty index to interrogate how poor PQR impact and exacerbates domestic electricity vulnerabilities in urban spaces. While useful, these theories remain limited due to the absence of granular and robust PQR data to quantify and address PQR disparities.
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Genevieve Flaspohler and Mohini Bariya

Helping Global Grids Work Smarter, not Harder

Introducing our public dataset from Ghana's power sector: Leveraging low-cost sensors and open data to kickstart smart grid improvements in developing countries.
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Alexandra Wall

Launching Four Years of Remote Monitoring for the Electric Grid in Senegal

For the next four years, nLine will remotely collect power quality and reliability data and generate key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate to what extent large investments in medium voltage lines and grid protective devices achieved its targeted outcome: to reduce technical losses and the frequency and duration of power outages in the for customers outside of Dakar.

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We’re a small and highly motivated team addressing the most pressing problems in energy infrastructure. If you care about our mission, please apply!

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We’re open to new partnerships, or sharing more with people interested in our work.