BJ-Energy Srvc Delivery APL (FY05)

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The main purpose of the Benin Energy Services Delivery Project is to increase access to modern energy in urban, peri-urban and rural areas, thereby facilitating improved quality o f life o f the respective communities. The secondary objectives o f the program is to promote the rationalization o f the structure and function o f the traditional biomass energy sector and to promote rational and economically viable inter-fuel substitution options for the household and small and medium enterprise sectors. The project activities are clustered in the following six activities: (1) Power Sector Reform comprising Private Sector Participation in the Benin Power and Water Utility and the Benin Electric Power Distribution Company (SBEE), regulatory capacity set up & training, and media communications and public relations activities; (2) engineering studies comprising a strategy for off-grid electrification; feasibility study for Onigbolo/Parakou TL; load management and energy efficiency in administration buildings; and studies for distribution, expansion, reinforcement, and rehabilitation; environmental assessment, engineering; preparation of bid documents. for Sakete-Porto Novo Transmission Line; and an update of a tariff study by 2007; (3) investment component financing power transmission and distribution; (4) environmental and social component financing an environmental assessment and audit; (5) institutional strengthening and capacity building; and (6) a biomass energy and inter-fuel substitution component.