GridWatch: A Low-Cost Approach to Measuring the Reliability of Power Systems

Across sub-Saharan Africa, more than half a billion people cannot access electricity, while millions more live with unreliable and intermittent sources of power. Data on power quality at the customer level are limited or nonexistent in these contexts. In response to this challenge, nLine has developed GridWatch, an innovative, low-cost way to measure grid performance and provide estimates of key performance indicators for grid reliability.

This fact sheet shares how companies can use GridWatch data to identify, track, and respond to outages more rapidly; regulators can use the data to monitor utility performance; and donors and governments can use it to better target investments in infrastructure to help deliver reliable power to the communities that need it most.