📋 Tender Overview
Source of Funding / Amount: Grant: increasing access to renewable energy project (phase 2)
Ordinary capital resources: US$ 2.00 million
The project will build upon the ongoing increasing access to renewable energy project with a view to increasing climate adaptation and resilience of energy infrastructure in funafuti and seven outer islands. The project aims to install indicatively (i) install 3 megawatts (mw) of fpv, 3 megavolt-ampere (mva)/15 megawatt-hour (mwh) battery energy storage system (bess) and support infrastructure in funafuti, and (ii) replace existing bess in the outer islands of nukufetau, nukulaelae, and in nui, and (iii) replace the bess in nanumaga, nanumea, niutao, and vaitupu.
The proposed project will initiate and contribute to the transformation of the tuvalu energy sector to one that is adapted to growing climate and natural hazards. It will do this by installing the innovative, climate-adapted and efficient floating pv (fpv) for power generation and for services and benefits beyond electricity to address the food-water-energy-climate-transport-environment nexus of challenges. Fpv is an adaptive technology as it requires no dry land, it rises with rising sea levels, rides the waves and floats with the tides, and is, by design, protected from coastal erosion and from strong winds due to its flexible cables and mooring system. The project will also replace the battery energy storage systems in all outer islands for continued reliability and diesel fuel savings as well as achieve the near 100% renewable target for the entire country. To ensure holistic sustainability of the project and tec, the project will also help resolve legacy issues in the operations, financial management, and tariff structure of tec.
Utilization of renewable energy increased and greenhouse gas emissions in the power subsector reduced (intended nationally determined contributions, 2015)a.
Utilization of sustainable climate-adapted renewable energy in tuvalu increased
Sector / Subsector: Agriculture, natural resources and rural development / fishery - land-based natural resources managementenergy / renewable energy generation - solar
Fact Finding: 08 may 2023 to 12 may 2023
MRM: 01 sep 2023
Last PDS Update: 30 sep 2022
