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Western Africa
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Nigeria
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Energy / Power

Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES), Nigeria

 

  • Provide some 17.5 million Nigerians and up to 237,000 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with new or improved access to electricity through the deployment of solar mini grids and standalone solar systems
  • The standalone solar systems will be implemented using targeted and competitively awarded performance-based and catalytic grants, and the mini grids through minimum subsidy tenders and performance-based grants
  • DARES aims to provide basic electrification for about 13.5 million unserved, rural and remote Nigerians through the deployment of standalone solar systems and electrification via mini grids for more than 2.7 million people in rural and peri-urban settings
  • The project will also improve the reliability of electricity supply for 1.3 million existing consumers in peri-urban and urban areas by connecting them to interconnected mini grids that will help replace approximately 288,000 diesel/gasoline generator sets
  • In addition, DARES will provide an estimated 237,000 MSMEs (including around 124,000 agri-businesses) with reliable and clean electricity that will help improve their income generation potential, create local jobs and improve the financial sustainability of mini grids
  • The scheme will also support the deployment of solar rooftop solutions for about 30 diesel generator set-reliant public hospitals in the state of Lagos in southwestern Nigeria under a pilot project