An Overview of Household Demand And Progression as Stratified by the SE4ALL Multi-Tier Framework


Access to clean and reliable electricity transforms people's lives. Understanding how this transformation happens and how the increasing levels of access can affect people's lives is of great interest to policy makers, developers, and researchers. One proposed example for tracking access to energy is the SE4ALL multi-tier framework. This framework stratifies access by several measures, including capacity, availability, reliability and quality of electrical power. In this presentation we look at how the distribution of households fall into these tiers and how they change over time. We look at how demand increases over time, giving some notion to the velocity in which households would progress along the tiers and give insight to developers and policy makers looking to adequately prepare for future consumer demand.

Key Take-Aways:
  • How are households currently distributed in the SE4ALL multi-tier framework
  • How do households progress between these tiers and at what time scale
  • How do energy providers stack up in the SE4ALL multi-tier framework
  • What does customer demand look like in these tiers, day vs night, etc.
Speaker

Jon Thacker, SparkMeter, Microgrids expert
Jon Thacker, Ph.D
Director of R&D
SparkMeter Inc.

Jon Thacker, Ph.D, is the Director of R&D at SparkMeter and has been working in the energy access space for 4 years. This work has extended from on site project management and installation of meters to developing SparkMeter's wireless communication protocols used in the metering network.