Deadline: Unspecified | Off-Grid Energy Business Initiative Market Development Fund In Mozambique
Do you have a business initiative for off-grid energy in Mozambique? The Market Development Fund for the Programme has been announced by BRILHO and is funded by the governments of Sweden (Sida) and the United Kingdom (FCDO).
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In Mozambique, the SNV-implemented 5-year BRILHO programme is boosting the off-grid market by promoting and supporting business endeavours that can offer the populace and small businesses competitive and sustainable energy solutions that are clean and affordable.
The program’s goal is to support business initiatives by utilising their innovation capabilities and resources to create and invest in off-grid solutions and services, and to thereby improve the lives of low-income people by enabling them to save money and create opportunities for their well-being and livelihoods while also bringing financial rewards to the private sector.
Through the Market Development Fund, the BRILHO programme gives chosen business ventures a one-of-a-kind combination of structured, non-reimbursable money for up to £1,500,000 per year and professional technical support in order to accomplish its goal.
The BRILHO programme also aids in the improvement of information access, demand activation, and the development of a more advantageous regulatory framework, including assistance to the Mozambican government in the creation of the recently approved Decree 93/2021 that governs the off-grid energy industry.
The governments of the United Kingdom (FCDO) and Sweden (Sida) reaffirm their dedication to continuing to collaborate with the governments of Mozambique, business organisations, national organisations, and international partners in order to promote the prosperity and welfare of all Mozambicans.
Technologies’ Range
- Cooking Solutions Improved (ICS)
- In order to support the use of alternative fuels, such as wood, charcoal, pellets, briquettes, biogas, ethanol, etc.,
- BRILHO will adopt a broad definition of ICS that includes both biomass stoves (which offer at least a 40% reduction in the use of fuels for cooking over the current technologies being used) and non-biomass stoves.
SHS, or solar home systems
- Households must have access to at least SEforALL Tier 1 power, as well as better lighting and connectivity, in order to have universal access. SHS are renowned as a high-quality, inexpensive option for off-grid homes as well as to power micro, small, and medium-sized companies (MSMEs) with a variety of productive use possibilities. This is especially true when linked to Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) mobile money technology.
GMG Green Mini-Grids
- Energy is essential for the expansion of the rural economy. Small direct current (DC) and bigger grid-equivalent alternating current (AC) Green Mini-Grids (GMG) offer the chance to supply homes and MSMEs with greater energy service levels.
what they supply?
- In order to reduce the risk associated with business initiatives that seek to generate competitive commercial returns and deliver off-grid energy solutions to low-income markets,
- BRILHO provides chosen enterprises with a distinctive combination of structured non-reimbursable finance and professional support.
- In addition, BRILHO promotes a better regulatory framework, sets quality standards, and enhances information access to help the sector ecosystem development.
Criteria
- Off-grid solar and ICS applications can now be submitted through BRILHO’s application window, which will be open until the first quarter of 2024.
- application processing on a quarterly basis by cohort.
- Each MDF bid will be examined to make sure it meets the minimal qualifying requirements.
- The applicants’ information is kept completely secret.
Visit SNV Netherlands Development Organisation for further details.
