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    Posted On 04 Jul 2020
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
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    By Abdul Rahman Bangura–

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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- A little over five years into the African Development Bank’s ambitious New Deal on Energy for Africa (NDEA), the Bank’s investments are assign to deliver electricity entrance to approximately thirteen million people and distribute about 55,000 km of distribution lines, and 6,700 km of lines, of which 3,200 km are for regional interconnections.

    The NDEA ordered for a considerable improvement in investments to acknowledge the Bank’s High 5 priority to “Light Up and Power Africa,” which endeavors to marshal finance and knack to broaden admission to reliable, sustainable energy for more than 200 million Africans through investments in power generation, inter-connections, transmission and distribution. This undertaking is significant to keeping ajar Africa’s vast economic potential, facilitating the advancement of value-adding industries and services, and most importantly, airing the originality of the continent’s 1.3 billion people.

    The scheme was rooted in the commendation that, cooperation’s are central to its success. In alliance with African countries, the Bank’s interventions have gallivant from setting up the right boosting policy environment, supporting utilities, to increasing the number of bankable energy projects. Besides, the Bank is expediting primary regional projects and driving integration through the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa, whilst also supporting bottom-of-the-pyramid energy access programs.

    Preference was granted to investments in low-carbon technologies, establish to participate in over 2GW of extra generation capacity by preventing the large, hydro, solar, geothermal, and wind resources of the continent. Ultimately, this is only the onset, as much of the work to date has been centered on setting up the right frameworks to mobilize different partners and alternative forms of capital to tackle the various challenges in the sector at country, sub-regional and regional levels.

    Indeed, mobilizing partnerships and rolling out countrywide energy transformation are continuous works in progress. In 2019, as a testament to the Bank’s efforts in enhancing dialogue and consensus, the G5 Heads of State endorsed the Bank’s Desert to Power initiative, intended to build the world’s largest solar zone across the Sahel by adding up to 10 GW of solar generation capacity through public and private interventions. The Yeleen Solar Program in Burkina Faso – the first of dozens of similar projects expected to flourish across the Sahel region – will provide energy to 150,000 households in rural areas through solar mini-grids and solar home systems, and an additional 52 MW of grid-connected solar generation, enough to power 30,000 new households.

    Accomplishing the purposes of the New Deal on Energy for Africa will employ a substantial improvement in private sector investments. The Bank catalyzes more private investments into independent power producers and off-grid projects through partnerships with project developers, commercial banks, private equity funds, institutional investors and other development finance institutions. Over the past five years, the Bank’s interventions reached $1.5 billion in private sector operations, corresponding to 1.7 GW additional generation capacity through independent power producers.

    In addition to mobilizing concessional resources through bilateral and multilateral sources – notably from the European Union, Green Climate Fund and Climate Investment Funds – the Bank hosts the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), one of the largest multi-donor technical assistance and concessional capital funds in the continent, designed to catalyze private sector participation in renewable energy.

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    In 2019, the Bank converted SEFA into a special trust fund to widen its interventions into green mini-grids to accelerate energy access to underserved populations; green baseload to support clean generation capacity; and energy efficiency to optimize energy systems and reduce energy intensity. SEFA is expected to contribute to the electrification of more than 7 million households by 2030.

    The Bank is also actively supporting the mobilization of commercial capital through blended finance solutions. The Facility for Energy Inclusion, which was operationalized in 2019, is a $500 million investment platform organized around two funds – off-grid and on-grid – to provide flexible debt products, including in local currency, to emerging business models in the small-scale renewable energy space. The Facility for Energy Inclusion will contribute to more than 3 million new connections by 2030.

    To enhance institutional performance and improve the enabling conditions to attract much needed investments, the Bank has also implemented initiatives such as the Electricity Regulatory Index to monitor and benchmark regulatory performance against best practices, the Sustainable Utilities Transformation Agenda, to build sustainable utilities and energy institutions, and the Africa Energy Portal to provide accurate, up-to-date data on Africa’s energy sector. In 2019, the African Development Bank reported that an additional 96 million African households had gained access to electricity between 2015 and 2019, with countries like Rwanda on track to achieve universal access by 2025. Despite this encouraging progress, close to 600 million Africans still lack electricity access and achieving universal access goals under SDG7 still requires greater and swifter efforts to meet the demands of Africa’s growing population.

    Addressing electricity access remains a costly enterprise, with the International Energy Agency placing the price tag at around $120 billion annually through 2040, four times higher than current levels.

    While our direct financial contribution is modest by comparison, we are confident that its judicious application to catalytic power projects, innovative financial structures, sector reform processes and acceleration of decentralized solutions will get us far in our mission.

    Dr. Kevin Kariuki, Vice President, Power, Energy, Climate Change & Green Growth, African Development Bank.

     

     

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    1. Oscar July 4, 2020 at 3:19 am Reply

      African Development Bank’s ambitious New Deal on Energy for Africa is a great idea. Great job. Africa’s own. Oscar in Maputo Mozambique.

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    2. Amy July 4, 2020 at 3:26 am Reply

      Great online newspaper. Since I started reading your reports, am learning a lot about Africa. Africa has a great future. Amy! British Columbia, Canada

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    3. Edward July 4, 2020 at 3:32 am Reply

      New Deal on Energy for Africa is over due. Thank you for reporting on this important issue. Edward. Harare Zimbabwe

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    4. Sam July 4, 2020 at 3:39 am Reply

      This is why our great Continent with 1.3 billion people need to be a one country, with one voice and one government. SAM IN NAIROBI KENYA.

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent July 4, 2020 at 3:40 am Reply

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    5. Ronald July 4, 2020 at 3:47 am Reply

      African Development Bank’s New Deal on Energy for Africa is a great investment. One Africa! One People. Thank you for your timely reports. Love New Africa. Lusaka, Zambia! Ronald!

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent July 4, 2020 at 3:48 am Reply

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    6. Shakur July 4, 2020 at 3:57 am Reply

      Thank you for all your reporting. I love your newspaper. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Shakur.

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent July 4, 2020 at 3:58 am Reply

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    7. Ekow July 4, 2020 at 4:03 am Reply

      This bank is doing lot of great projects benefiting most of our people, in all part of our Continent. Hanover Germany. Ekow

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent July 4, 2020 at 4:05 am Reply

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    8. Bolanile July 4, 2020 at 4:11 am Reply

      Unlike foreign banks, African Dev Bank is our bank. Bank own by all Africans. It’s main goal is to invest to our people. Yes is our bank. Bolanile in Lagos, Nigeria.

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    9. Stanley July 4, 2020 at 4:18 am Reply

      Unlike the Chinese banks that have goal just to give loans to corrupt presidents and take all our natural resources including all. Thank you our own African development bank. Thank u for reporting. Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA! Stanley.

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    10. Raymond July 4, 2020 at 4:28 am Reply

      Stanley you are correct. These corrupt presidents are signing bad loans with these Chinese banks and Chinese government. We need new leaders for our great continent. Look South Africa alone their are more than 300, 000 Chinese and China is not sending their brightest to our Continent. Abuja Nigeria. Raymond.

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    11. Aziz July 4, 2020 at 5:21 am Reply

      Stanley & Raymond very true. Look at Senegal one of the many examples. Took lot of loans with the Chinese, and now China is taking most of their God given fishes to China. You only will only see Chinese fishing boats taking all the fishes they catch to China. Foolish! Aziz in Paris, France

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    12. Laurian July 4, 2020 at 5:35 am Reply

      That’s why nobody respect them. Thank you for reporting. Am a regular reader and I love reading your reports. Love this newspaper. Laurian, CAPETOWN SOUTH AFRICA.

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    13. Abdul Rahman Bangura Freetown, Sierra Leone. July 4, 2020 at 11:23 am Reply

      The African Development Bank is doing well. Please, African leaders, emulate good footprints from the AfDB.

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    14. Abibatu Bangura Freetown, Sierra Leone. July 11, 2020 at 12:38 am Reply

      Thank you, New Africa Business News for signing me to your great and one-stop point of breaking news about the African continent. Abdul Rahman Bangura, I’m a fan of you. And I love your reports. NABN is great online, newspaper.

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    15. Abibatu Bangura Freetown, Sierra Leone. July 16, 2020 at 6:54 pm Reply

      Good job journalist Abdul Rahman Bangura. New Africa Business News is Africa’s one-stop point where one can have all the latest news about the African continent. Great online newspaper.

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