Publications

This IGC policy brief presents findings from a year-long study of solar-powered healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone. It highlights the challenges of achieving reliable, 24/7 electricity in hospitals despite solar installations, emphasising the need for remote monitoring systems and sustained funding to ensure consistent power for critical care.

This paper introduces a conceptual framework that integrates energy justice, capabilty, and multidimensional poverty theories with power system analysis to assess electricity inequities in sub-Saharan Africa.

The article examines electricity challenges in Goma's healthcare, presenting findings from nLine sensor monitoring and discussing Power Africa's renewable energy solutions for sub-Saharan African health facilities.

This IGC policy brief highlights policies that can bridge power quality and reliability data gaps and standards in Sierra Leone, to better understand sustainable healthcare electrification investments.

This IGC report uncovers power quality and reliability challenges at electrified health facilities in Sierra Leone.

IGC study to monitor power quality at 15 health facilities, revealing disparities in electricity access.

Case study regarding the Sierra Leone Healthcare Electrification Project is deploying solar PV and battery storage systems in health facilities to ensure round-the-clock electricity supply and improve healthcare in the country.

Final evaluation brief on the impact of Ghana Power Compact investment in Accra by the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

This brief outlines lessons from the MCC's evaluation of the Ghana Power Compact, focusing on leveraging new grid technologies and a broader geographic scope for future power infrastructure projects.

This paper examines the impacts of different procurement procedures used by the World Bank and African Development Bank on the speed and quality of Kenya's Last Mile Connectivity Project.

Accepted and under review for the International Energy Workshop (IEW’2023).

This blog from MCC highlights the use of GridWatch in Accra, Ghana to measure and monitor power outages, providing reliable data for evaluating energy programs and improving the performance of the power grid.

Published at the Climate Change AI Workshop at ICLR'23 in the Proposals Track (ICLR’23).

Brief for SEforAll's initiatives in Sierra Leone.

The post examines how contracting procedures of the World Bank versus the African Development Bank impacted the speed and quality of Kenya's Last Mile Connectivity household electrification project.

The central page for resources related to the Ghana Power Compact on MCC's website.

Report of main findings from the Spotlight Kamapala project.

Chapter from ESI Africa 2023 on the Spotlight Kampala project featuring nLine sensors.

A portal to all of Crown Agents's work in Sierra Leone, including the work nLine has been involved in.

Design report for the Senegal Power Compact evaluation.

A high level exploration of the insights generated from work happening on the Spotlight Kamapala project so far.

Our team contributed a chapter to Introduction to Development Engineering: A Framework with Applications from the Field, a textbook for electrical engineering.

Published in Applied Energy.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for the Senegal Power Compact.

In this Coffee Break Briefing, Hub Fellow Susanna Berkouwer and Noah Klugman of nLine present on GridWatch’s successes and next steps, moderated by Katie Auth.

Presented as a part of the International Conference on InformationProcessing in Sensor Networks (co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2021) (IPSN’21).

Presented at Compass ’19, ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies.

Paper initially presented at The Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD’19)

Initially presented at The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom’18).