{"id":139,"date":"2020-10-29T16:54:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2020-10-29T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T17:14:28","slug":"oniipa-address-to-fusion-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/oniipa-address-to-fusion-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Oniipa Address to Fusion Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mr. Junias Jakob,<\/strong> Chief Executive Officer, Oniipa Town Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-3.png 327w, https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-3-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><figcaption><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a former Finish Missionary Station, Oniipa Town is privileged to be the African town to host the modular Fusion Grid pilot project. This project is in itself a contribution to realization of our first 5 year strategic plan for the period of 2019\/20 \u2013 2023\/24, which is geared towards the rural-urban transformation of Oniipa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Embarking upon smart initiatives like the Fusion Grid technology to address pressing socio-economic issues for our communities tops our strategic intents list. Electricity and internet connectivity are some of these much needed essential needs for our people at this time when they need it most to improve their livelihoods \u2013 including that of school leaners who need electricity and internet for their studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are very ambitious to scale out this project to most of our vulnerable residents in informal settlements upon its successful completion.&nbsp; Our expectation is that it will be very affordable and user-friendly to the end users as we expect most of the system components to be sourced locally \u2013 thereby saving on material import levies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" width=\"377\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-6.png 720w, https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-6-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Junias Jakob, Chief Executive Officer, Oniipa Town Council As a former Finish Missionary Station, Oniipa Town is privileged to be the African town to host the modular Fusion Grid pilot project. This project is in itself a contribution to realization of our first 5 year strategic plan for the period of 2019\/20 \u2013 2023\/24, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/10\/29\/oniipa-address-to-fusion-grid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oniipa Address to Fusion Grid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusiongrid.cs.aalto.fi\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}