发表于 ：Tuesday , 6th October 2020

The Government of Rwanda through BRD in alliance with the World Bank, and Swedish International cooperation agency SIDA ,have recently launched a subsidy window and Guarantee framework to offer credit facilities to SACCO's, Banks and microfinance institutions that will lend to households for off grid connections.

世界银行允许一个1500万美元的补贴，预计将有利于居住在非网友地区的182.927户低收入家庭，而瑞典国际合作机构西达支付了2000万美元以促进该计划的实施。

BRD的首席执行官Kampeta Sayinzoga表示，“该计划不包括100％补贴，而是预计受益人将以现金或支付的方法贡献，随着您的支付，将与受益家庭渠道渠道渠道渠道渠道渠道，”

"The subsidy will base on Ubudehe categories whereby, a beneficiary in category 1 of Ubudehe, will have a 90% percentage subsidy on a solar home system under 120USD, 70% on the second category and 45% on the third category".

She further stated that affordability has been a grave challenge in off-grid sector where majority of the households living in none-electrified areas cannot meet the expense of solar home systems even if it is provided in credit. A factor to give a hand through off grid participating solar companies.

Eligible Companies will not surpass 1million USD for the 3 years of implementation of the projects and they require to fulfil criteria of eligibility including; Having an agreement with EDCL; Make available warranty for solar system services and should have a recycling capacity among others.

Sayinzoga mentioned, those working with Sacco's will benefit from the assured framework where the solar home system itself will work as a collateral, she added female borrowers will have a 70% cover from the guarantee as men will have a 50% all with aims to uptake the renewable energy loans through partner financial institutions.

She also said, "We will not give out the entire disbursement but in instalments so that solar companies will take care the maintenance for at least 3 years which is the implementation period of the scheme. All these efforts are part of the national agenda that by 2024 all Rwandans should be connected at 100%. So far electricity access is at 48% off-grid and 52% on-grid connections".

Amb. Claver Gatete, Rwanda's minister of Infrastructure said there are different projects in the pipeline that will enable 100% connections by 2024.

"We have 80MW Rusumo project, 230MW Rusizi III project, Shema power project will give us 56mgw and Nyabarongo II with 43.5MW. The main task is the construction of transmission and distribution lines we need more private sector support to make it a dream come true," he stated.

As of April 2020, the Off-grid access rate is 15% of Rwandan households.

建议建议使用远离计划的国家电网覆盖范围的家庭利用较便宜的连接，如迷你​​电网和太阳能光伏（PVS），以降低电力的获得成本。