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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Allan Wasega and Margaret OderoJan 13, 2025

Re-examining Healthcare Electrification Metrics: The Case for Disaggregated Metrics in Critical Care

In this post, we describe findings from measuring both hospital- and room-level KPIs, uncovering that different rooms or departments within healthcare facilities experience varying PQR outcomes. In doing so, we highlight the importance of considering room-level KPIs, especially in critical rooms, alongside hospital-level metrics to more accurately measure healthcare electrification outcomes.

Alexandra WallNov 6, 2024

Lessons for the Design of Future MCC Power Infrastructure Programs

In 2022, the five-year, $316 million Ghana Power Compact came to a close. nLine sensor data supported the evaluation of a line bifurcation project under the Compact. This blog is adapted from Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) final learnings from this impact evaluation and highlights lessons for the design of future power infrastructure programs.

Jackson GoodeOct 23, 2024

Open-source Visualization at nLine

nLine has built the Plotly.js Panel for Grafana to explore visualizations and enable interactivity of our energy data for our analysts and partners. We’ve open-sourced the code and contributed it as a Grafana community plugin for anyone on the platform to use. So far we’ve addressed dozens of community issues, features, and suggestions and are nearing 1 million downloads. This blog provides a look a how the project came to be, from tenable fork to a robust rewrite that fits seamlessly within the Grafana ecosystem.

Olufolahan Osunmuyiwa and Margaret OderoSep 18, 2024

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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