- SEFA will provide a $1 million grant to boost energy transition.
- Botswana aims to increase its renewable energy generation to 100MW in 2050.
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has approved a $1 million grant to support Botswana’s energy transition.
The project supports the Government of Botswana in closing critical gaps in policy, regulatory and legal frameworks, which were identified at the Africa Energy Market Place (AEMP 2019). These include introducing least-cost planning, reducing adverse environmental impacts, and supporting increased private sector participation in renewable energy (RE) generation investments.
Some of the notable outputs from the project include a national Grid Code, Electricity Cost of Service Study (CoSS) and licensing framework to regulate power sector activities. In addition, the outputs from the project will contribute towards the implementation of Botswana’s first Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), thus facilitating investments in new solar PV and wind generation capacity, amounting to at least 100MW and 50MW, respectively, by 2030.
Through its support for the further development of the renewable energy generation sector in Botswana, the project also contributes to the Mega Solar initiative, launched in 2021 in collaboration with Namibia and development partners, to build renewable energy capacity in the two countries, to enable electricity exports to the rest of the region.