Technical assistance
Domestic energy. Solar power  Rural electrification

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Supervision of installation, collection of payments and maintenance of 12,000 Solar Home Systems (SHS) in the framework of the Rural Electrification and Transmission Project (RETP)

Country : Cambodia
Client : MIME (Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy). REF (Rural Electrification Fund)
Start Date : 16/09/2011
Completion Date : 15/09/2012
Value of services : 404 066 € (654 560 $)
Funder : World Bank
Associate/Partner : N/A
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Description :
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) plans to extend grid-based electricity supply to provincial towns, district towns and nearby rural areas in the near future providing grid quality electricity to 40% of rural households by 2020 and 70% by 2030. In rural areas, with no access to public grids, the RGC seeks to encourage private development of mini-grids based on diesel and/or renewable energy sources.
Under the Rural Electrification and Transmission Project (RETP), the Solar Homes System (SHS) program has been developed to offer the inhabitants in off-grid rural areas, where it is expected that grid or mini-grid supply will not reach within next 5-10 years, with the opportunity of having basic electricity supplies.
The SHS purchase is financed with subsidy and loan from the REF, with repayment within 4 years.
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Description of the Actual Services Provided Phase 1: Supervision of the installation of up to 12 000 SHS
(13 months) distributed in more than 400 settlements;
Phase 2: Collection of payments and maintenance of the SHS units. (On 4 years duration) :
* Collection of the loan repayment from the SHS beneficiaries every month from the date of installation up to the end;
* Operation and Maintenance of SHS;
* Updating 2 databases : (i) Operation & maintenance database and (ii) Loan Repayment database;
* Development of user instructions leaflet.