Mali: Rural Electrification Hybrid Systems

Grant Funding|Activity Status: Closed
  • Sector
    Energy
    Fragile Situations
  • Country
    Mali
    Region
    Africa
  • Amount
    $5 million
  • Approval Date
    December 01, 2013
    Closing Date
    June 30, 2018
  • Donors
    United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
Project website World Bank project information

Overview

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In rural Mali, where over 80 percent of the country’s population lives, the electrification rate is only 15 percent. GPOBA’s Rural Electrification Hybrid System Project provides incentives to private operators to increase access and make connection packages more affordable to the rural poor. The project targets poor households in rural, off-grid, remote areas that have been unable to get a mini-grid connection due to high investment cost. The project has two components—subsidies for investment in off-grid solutions, and the independent verification of outputs.