Liberia - Liberia Energy Efficiency and Access Project (LEEAP)

The Liberia Energy Efficiency and Access Project (LEEAP) of the Government of Liberia’s electricity sector development master plan the LCPDP1. It is part of a larger multi-donor programme aiming to improve the access to electricity in Liberia and involving the Norwegian Government, the World Bank and the European Union among other donors. This project focuses on the RIA transmission line corridor as well as the extension of the EU financed cross-border electrification project from Pleebo to Fish Town in the River Gee County. It mainly concerns the construction of 46.1 km of transmission line and 280 km of distribution line in the corridors of the Roberts International Airport (RIA) in the greater Monrovia and Pleebo-Fish Town at the River Gee County. It also includes an energy efficiency component as well as a capacity building component. The project, estimated at an overall cost of UA 31.38 million, will be implemented over the 2017- 2019 period.