Renewable Energy Support Tender

Renewable energy support and access accelerator project

Project ID:P181221
Region:Eastern and southern africa
Commitment Amount:Us$ 122.00 million
Total Project Cost 1:Us$ 122.30 million
Borrower 2:Republic of botswana

Development Objective
To enable renewable energy grid integration in Botswana and improve electricity service in selected rural areas

The proposed project will support Botswana with the successful and sustainable integration of VRE by financing the following critical grid investments under Component 1 as informed by the aforementioned VRE integration study: (i) battery energy storage systems (BESS), (ii) Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) and (iii) Strengthening power system control and dispatch (upgrade of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition – SCADA. The project will also support GoB with rolling out its rural electrification program under
Component 2: (i) financing the grid expansion to rural villages (including a 66 kV Transmission Line (160 km) from Lobatse sub-station to Mabule sub-station and the associated substations) and (ii) contributing to finance the offgrid solar program adopted by the GoB.
In addition, the project will also finance TA under Component 3 to empower the key stakeholders in developing and implementing sustainable and bankable RE projects.