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Supporting the sustainable electrification of 100,000 rural households, as committed by the Colombian government.

This project is strengthening the planning and implementation capacity of sub- national entities and rural communities to deploy high-quality renewable energy rural electrification solutions. It has provided solutions that can bring reliable and clean electricity to 1,447 off-grid citizens. It has also demonstrated the attractiveness of the rural electrification market for private sector investors, leading the design and marketing of four innovative rural electrification solutions to investment commitment. In its new phase, the project will provide targeted technical assistance to the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Institute for Planning and Promotion of Energy Solutions for Non-Interconnected Areas to implement Colombia's new Energy Transition Law 2099 of 2021, including the operationalization of FONENERGIA – Colombia’s new energy fund – and the promotion of hybrid solutions across off-grid areas.

Key project actions:

• Enhancing the capacity of sub-national entities to design, plan, structure and implement renewable energy solutions;
• Increasing the quality and number of rural electrification projects funded by the Royalties System Programme;
• Providing technical assistance to selected private sector developers to deliver replicable off-grid electrification business models;
• Developing and producing the operational manual for FONENERGIA - Colombia’s new sustainable energy fund;
• Conducting a feasibility study for the development of PV hybrid rural electrification solutions to displace the use of fossil fuels in off-grid areas.

• Four private-sector led off-grid projects have been designed, structured, and marketed in collaboration with national developers, obtaining letters of intent formalizing investors' cumulative early investment commitments of USD 307,922,310 for sustainable rural electrification.
  
  
• The virtual course “Formulation and structuring of rural electrification projects with renewable energy” launched on February 17, 2022 is now available to subnational entities. It will strengthen their capacity to design renewable energy rural electrification projects.
  
  
• Technical assistance to the municipality of Puerto Caicedo and the community of Bahia Malaga in Valle del Cauca to design rural electrification solutions and submit funding requests to the National Royalties Programme for funding, benefitting 1,447 unelectrified households.

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