Cameroon: Dibamba Power Plant

The Dibamba Thermal Power Project comprises of the following components:

• The construction of a 88 MW power plant fuelled with heavy fuel oil (HFO) at the site in Yassa village; and

• The construction of energy transmission facilities, including:

  1. (i)  A step-up substation at the plant site (11 to 90 kV) at the plant site; and

  2. (ii)  A 1.8 km 90 kV double circuit transmission line between the plant and a connection to existing 90 kV transmission lines which run to Ngodi-Bekoko substation at Bekoko.

FasoBiogaz

FasoBiogaz SARL is an enterprise located in the industrial zone of Kossodo in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and operates the first industrial biogas plant connected to the SONABEL power grid. With an installed electrical capacity of 275 kW, the plant is transforming slaughterhouse waste and other available organic substrate into biogas and digestat. While biogas is transformed into electricity and injected into the national power grid, the digestat is commercialized as biofertilizer. The project is financed by the Dutch private investor company Van Kersbergen Invest B.V.

It’s a Texas Two-Step—But Who’s Leading? Building Public-Private Partnerships in South Sudan

This SmartLesson explores the difficulties and obstacles in promoting public-private partnerships as a means of strengthening the private sector and thus the country’s economy. South Sudan is considered a fragile post-conflict state and falls under IFC’s Conflict Affected States in Africa Initiative.

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PHARES Program (Programme Haïtien d'Accès des communautés Rurales à l'Energie Solaire)

The PHARES program is developed by the Government of Haiti in close collaboration with the IDB and the WB and aims to increase the access of rural and peri-urban communities to solar energy and in particular to provide access to affordable, accessible sustainable and high quality electricity, through sustainable energy services, through mini-grids using renewable energy, storage and conventional generation units (if necessary), developed and operated by private sector operators. In this mix, at least 50% of the energy produced and consumed must be generated from renewable energy sources.

Request for Proposal for the award of grants and concessions to eligible mini-grid developers for the design, construction and operation of renewable energy mini-grids

The main objective of PHARES is to increase the access of rural and peri-urban communities to solar energy and in particular to provide access to affordable, accessible sustainable and high quality electricity, through sustainable energy services, through mini-grids using renewable energy, storage and conventional generation units (if necessary), developed and operated by private sector operators. In this mix, at least 50% of the energy produced and consumed must be generated from renewable energy sources.