📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173749
Region: Africa west
Commitment Amount: Us$ 200.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 200.00 million
The Benin PROSPERE study is currently the most elaborate GoB plan for grid extension and reinforcement.It has been developed based on existing data of Benin’s population and SBEE’s network, but it is not a GIS least-cost electrification plan or NES, which will replace it as the flagship document for electrification upon completion. The PROSPERE report nevertheless provides some insights on electrificaiton priorities, which are likely to be reflected in the NES. Benin PROSPERE finds that there are 1,846 localities, 73 city districts, and 1,376 hamlets (areas with more than 200 households) that are still unelectrified, while accounting for projects currently under implementation. The PROSPERE plan has prioritized localities for electrification based on the following criteria: i) the distance of the locality to the existing SBEE grid (for those within 2km of the MV network); and ii) for the localities between 2km and 7km radius from the network, it has applied a formula that assesses the localities socio-economic potential based on a human development index (HDI). The HDI takes into account the health, education, and economic potential (the village’s population and access to major roads). Based on this criteria, it has identified 753 rural localities to prioritizes for connection (547 villages and 206 hamlets of more than 200 people). In total, the program aims to electrify 1,122 localities, 753 rural and 369 localities urban and peri-urban. This will electrify around 142,000 households and 20,500 SMEs. 38.Geospatial least-cost planning tools have become best practice in electrification planning following their successful implementation in Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda. GIS least-cost plans provide a powerful tool to policy makers to balance efficiency in the use of limited public resources with the objective of providing equal opportunities to those living in areasfar away from the existing grid. At the same time, geospatial plans allow for identifying communities that may require pre-electrification solutions in the short-to mid-term while waiting for higher service standard connections. The NES will provide a least-cost electrification model that includes: spatial characterization of population settlement concentrations, nucleation patterns, and indicative capex per new connections; least-cost options for grid-based densificationand extension; least-cost optionsfor isolated networks(mini-grids) and standalone systems; and a sensitivity analysis to demonstrate the robustness of these options. Based on these outputs, the Project will prioritizethe areas based on the lowest cost per connection, taking into account other possible government priorities identified in PROSPERE such as electrifying specific health clinics.
