Regional Program for Distributed Access Through Renewable Energy Solutions - Liberia

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Regional DARES is as a regional platform to enable scaling up of both new and established cross-country market aggregation approaches to accelerate distributed renewable energy (DRE) market growth across countries in West Africa for achieving universal electrification. The program will focus on accelerating DRE market growth in the three most critical segments, namely: (i) households, (ii) productive use of energy (PUE) for enhanced food security (including irrigation, cooling and agri-processing), and (iii) critical human capital-related public services (including schools and healthcare facilities). The fourth pillar will focus on aligning policies and regulatory frameworks and building capacities in the countries (REAs, regulators etc.). In its first phase, the platform aims to provide – (i) electricity access to over 11 million and 100,000 micro, small and medium enterprises through the deployment of minigrids, mesh-grids and standalone systems; (ii) reliable and clean electricity for productive uses to around 200,000 farmers and agri-businesses; and (iii) electricity access to 5,000 public institutions, including health centers and schools, to enable them to provide essential public services.The program supports the following pillars:Pillar 1: Connecting People and Businesses with affordable DRE solutions including minigrids, mesh-grid and standalone systems to foster local development.​Pillar 2: Powering Food Security through DRE-based irrigation, cooling and agri-processing solutions to build resilience of food supply chains in West Africa.​Pillar 3: Powering Human Capital through the roll-out of the “Energy-as-a-Service” (EaaS) model to strengthen critical public infrastructure (incl. health centers and schools) via OGS systems.Pillar 4: Technical Assistance focused on enabling environment as well as regional tender design and capacity building of national Rural Electrification Agencies and Sector Regulators.​