REREC is at an advanced stage of acquiring land for the construction and implementation of solar mini grids under the World Bank sponsored; Kenya Electricity Modernization Project (KEMP). The project aims at connecting 3,368 customers to electricity in areas that are far from the national grid. In compliance to the World Bank’s safeguard policy guidelines on land acquisition, REREC has already held public participation barazas to allocate land in all the seven proposed project sites to sensitize the beneficiary communities on the need to donate land for the solar mini grid projects and also identify communal projects that REREC could implement as a way of giving back. During the public Barazas, the team is expected to get consent for advance possession of the land, determine the adequacy of the land, and initiate a formal transfer of the project land to REREC while ensuring that the whole process complies with the safeguard policies of the Country and the Financier. On completion, the solar mini-grids will connect the following number of customers to electricity;
331 180 280 1395 502 280 400
Takawiri Ngodhe Kerio Mageta Wasini/ Kaeris Dabel
Mkwiro
KEMP’s scope includes; ~ Design, Supply and Installation of 1175 kW AC (1410 kWp Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Plants (SPGP) with Associated Power Distribution Network (PDN)
~ Operation and Maintenance (O&M) services of the facilities and reliable supply of power to the consumers for a period of 15 years in selected un-electrified areas in Kenya.
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