Redavia

RENTAL SOLAR POWER FOR FOOD PROCESSING IN TANZANIA

The project scaled Redavia’s “pay-as-you go” industrial solar power service to other remote businesses, particularly into the food processing sector. The project was designed to overcome the barriers of high up-front costs and long off take agreements by offering SMEs a standard, modular, and redeployable solar farm on a flexible, pre-financed rental basis. This scaling leveraged Redavia’s existing commercial, technology, and financing platforms. Target food processing sub-segments were coffee, tea, oilseeds and cashews, which suffer from frequent (up to 25% of the time) power outages and/or high-cost diesel-generator power. The power was expected to empower rural women particularly through mechanisation of food processing and creating higher value jobs.

 

Outcome and Impact:

This project achieved emission reductions of 1112 tCO2eq annually. Around 1000 rural households were reached and 25 FTE direct jobs created. Renewable systems generated 1,588 MWh of energy and 1.2 MWp was newly installed.

 

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Project Developer

Location

Tanzania

Total Project Budget

EUR 2 184 092

EEP Africa Financing

EUR 623 343

Sector

Solar PV

Type

Scale Up

Project Period

2015 - 2017