ELONCITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

The Eloncity Model is about decentralizing, a move towards localization, from unbundling the centralized energy
services to shared consensus blockchain ledger to crypto utility token. The Eloncity is not limited to the technical efforts to reshape the energy infrastructure, it also about replacing the bureaucratically burdened hierarchies and inefficient centralized systems with socially decentralized solutions, and empowering communities and individuals to participate in creating a vibrant, safe, secure, healthy, sustainable and equitable energy future.

The Eloncity Model is set up to be powerfully socially relevant, and economically attractive as it is based on a universal principle that the new energy economy will be one OF the people, FOR the people, BY the people. The community-driven development ensures Eloncity’s innovative technological components reaches full potential by providing the structure for:

• Strengthening participation of community stakeholders and households in ensuring buy-in to ensure the constructed energy system is OF the people.
• Optimize the application of the constructed energy system to be FOR the people by configuring and aligning the technological components to local interests, need, wants, resources, capacity, and social characteristics.
• Facilitate and embed a sense of ownership within the community in building the model to be BY the people where community stakeholders, from participating households to local entities, embrace accountability and incentivize to plan, build, operate, maintain and expand their decentralized energy network.

This emphasis on the local community and its participating stakeholders propels Eloncity’s business model
on five fundamental levels; 1) community adoption; 2) social application; 3) measured impact; 4) continued
growth and success beyond initial implementation; 5) social innovations and insight to accelerate mass market
replication. The Eloncity approach builds the new energy marketplace from the ground-up and from within
the community to unlock sustainable, environmental, social and economic benefit that has until now, been
obstructed by typical centralized and hierarchical structures that work from a top-down, externally imported
fashion.

Key community development steps:

• Design - Holistically calibrated modeling and locally tailored scenario analysis based on local needs,
  desires, and resources. The objective is to unlock quantifiable synergies and interconnections to
  define metrics and specifications for high-performance projects. Best-integrated performance
  metrics will be designed to maximize potential environmental impact, public health benefits, as
  well as other value streams defined as important by the locality. Stakeholders’ evaluations will
  utilize participatory research methods to leverage data insights not only from numbers but also
  from socio-cultural perspectives that are important to inform community-mobilization strategies
  for Eloncity Model deployment. Utilizing participatory research methods and on-the-ground
  expertise for holistic programmatic design to synergize local needs with the technology, finance,
  and regulatory components. This design phase involves a robust multi-stakeholder and collaborative
  process to conduct interdisciplinary field research, analytics, and data collection processes to define
  performance metrics for measurement and verification in delivering real values to the community
  and stakeholders.

• Planning - will be framed along the identified social barriers to guide the strategies to engage
  and empower community stakeholders in the planning and deployment of Eloncity project.
  Local community coordinating and working groups will be created to ensure local ownership and
  commitment, locally driven solution, project design responsive to local needs, effective localized
  deployment efforts, and enduring project success. The overarching goal is to enable the project to
  access untapped capacities and resources and focus efforts on what deemed most important to the
  community.

• Deployment - Include local community capacity-building initiatives, coalition development methods,
  and interdisciplinary collaborations to increase deployment efficiency, lower costs, and increase
  salient local benefits and values; convene a local working group of community members and partners
  to eradicate local silos and inform opportunities for resource leveraging during the deployment phase.

• Scaling - Includes stakeholder evaluations to assess the project’s perceived and actual value by the
  community and key constituents. The overarching goal of community scaling is to manage risks and
  systematically grow the local Eloncity microgrid capabilities, sophistication, and benefits layered
  over time. The scaling includes local groundswell strategies, community infrastructure to provide
  ongoing support for identifying and scaling up local opportunities. Engagement with stakeholders
  will define clear local development roadmap from the initial initiatives to future project opportunities
  in the surrounding areas.

• Education Materials and Mobilization Campaigns - Educational outreach materials will be created,
  contextualized specifically for local community-experience according to the identified local social
  barrier. The design goal is to ensure a strong link between the project design and the local community
  needs and characteristics. This includes community-based participatory assessments needed to
  define an effective, comprehensive, commercially viable business case for the target project sponsors,
  developers, and the community.