Deadline: 8 March 2019
Off-grid clean power facility (OCEF) has announced a second call for proposals to contribute to off-grid electrification for the benefit of poor and unserved Beninese households.
Objectives
The objectives of the OCEF and therefore of this AAP are:
- Improve the availability of electricity and access to electricity public infrastructure, communities and households;
- Sustainably boost the off-grid electrification market in Benin;
- Increase adoption of energy efficiency measures and use efficient equipment.
Program Windows
The OCEF funds will be awarded for four windows of project funding for the second Call for Proposals:
- Window 1: Critical Public Infrastructure
- Off-grid energy for essential public infrastructure such as water treatment and pumping facilities, street lighting, hospitals, public health centres, courts, universities, schools, and other community infrastructure.
- The focus of this window is to install off-grid power generation equipment and accompanying electrical systems along with an administrative framework for operations and maintenance to ensure continuous delivery of critical services.
- Window 2: Decentralized generation and distribution of electricity
- Decentralized generation and distribution of electricity via mini-grids or micro-grids for community and/ or productive use.
- The OCEF encourages generation for productive use, particularly models that involve an anchor tenant that produces/consumes power for production while also supplying power to the community. While OCEF grants will not fund agricultural equipment directly (eg. food processing equipment), such equipment could count towards the grantee contribution requirement
- Window 3: Household Energy Services
- Household Energy Systems. Support to companies to import, sell, distribute, install, and maintain household-level PV technologies including solar home kits and other similar products. Companies are encouraged to provide affordable financing terms and convenient payment systems that fit client needs. In addition to solar lighting, applicants to this window are also encouraged to provide solar-powered technologies that may improve the livelihoods or generate timesavings for households, particularly women (eg. solar drip irrigation or mini solar-powered appliances)
- Window 4: Energy Efficiency Measures
- Support to business models for implementation of energy efficiency measures by public institutions, households and commercial and industrial users.
- Energy-efficient appliances and equipment not only reduce overall costs for electricity consumers, but also reduce the demand for electricity from the grid.
Funding Information
The envelope available for this second Call for Proposals for Projects (AAP) is 20,000,000 US dollars (USD). MCA-Benin II, however, reserves the right to not allocate all available funds.
Eligibility Criteria
- To qualify for co-financing from the OCEF, the Bidder must be an organization or a Beninese or foreign company with operations or intent to establish operations in Benin, or a Beninese public institution enjoying autonomy Management.
- Specific categories of organizations, institutions and entrepreneurs who are invited to answer must:
- be a legal entity regularly registered in its country of origin,
- belong to one of the following categories: industrial groups, enterprises commercial, private for-profit or not-for-profit companies, suppliers, educational organizations, academic institutions,
- decentralized local authorities, non-governmental organizations regional and international governmental organizations, civil society organizations, bilateral and multilateral technical and financial partners, public or enterprises of the Government of Benin, and
- be the direct bearer (s) of the project and directly responsible for its preparation and management in case of selection and not acting as an intermediary.
- If co-financing is awarded, the Bidder becomes the identified beneficiary as the lead coordinator in the OCEF co-financing agreement. The lead coordinator is the main interlocutor of the OCEF. He represents the possible others partners and acts on their behalf. He designs and coordinates the implementation of the project.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: Benin
For more information, please visit https://ocef.bj/en/pages/call-for-proposal