Somali Government responds to Somalia's Energy needs

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Federal Government plans for Somalia's Energy needs.
Published on December 7, 2017
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Dalmar Hassan
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While assistance is required in all sectors of the Somali economy, infrastructure is particularly important, as it is the base of all productive and social activities. Thus, the efficient and effective intermediation of development assistance targeted towards the rehabilitation and development of Somalia’s infrastructure sub-sectors (Energy, Transport, Water & Sanitation, and ICT) is a top priority.

The FGS intends to play an increasingly important role in attracting foreign development assistance and private investment, and to assist and facilitate the mobilization of external support for the emerging regional administrations that will form the federal structure, in addition to the better established areas of Puntland and Somaliland. While assistance is required in all sectors, infrastructure is particularly

Important, as it is the base of all productive and social activities, and energy is key among infrastructural sectors because it directly improves living standards (better lighting, household appliances) and security,


Contributes to stabilization and permits increases in productivity. The Energy sector Investment program devised resulting from several assessments the largest being the African Development banks Energy sector assessment has two main objectives.

To ensure the sustainability of the fuel supply (especially household fuels) by reducing pressure on the biomass resources (vegetative cover) of Somalia and through substitution of modern fuels,

kerosene and LPG for biomass fuels; and To improve welfare, productivity and security by expanding access to grid-supplied electricity in cities (based on hybrid power generation, i.e. conventional fuels and renewables, mainly solar/photovoltaic) and promoting non-grid modern energy services and products to poor rural and nomadic people.


To this end, the government with development partners and through different implementing partners plans to reduce use of biomass fuels which would assist 770,000 households in cutting their biomass fuel use and help convert perhaps as many as 13,000 people from charcoal producers to social forestry workers, who would protect the forests, extract products from them(without cutting trees) and, in due course, administer the stumpage fee when trees need to be cut (e.g. for timber or sustainable charcoal).

This programme might help cut charcoal use by 1.5 million tons over seven years, roughly a quarter of estimated current consumption, noticeably reducing pressure on the threatened, dwindling, slow-growing and precious vegetative cover.

The electric power supply expansion programme, over the ten-year period, would result in the installation of close to 200MW of power generation capacity, of which 40–50MW of renewable energy (mainly solar/photovoltaic), the creation/repair of 18 city grids (regional capitals plus Mogadishu and Hargeisa), and a pilot project consisting of ten rural hybrid minigrids. It also contemplates the electrification of as many as 20 other urban centers.

The higher scale of generation and the vastly more efficient grids would also help cut costs of supply and reduce average tariffs by about 50% (from around USD 1/kWh to about USD 0.40/kWh). This programme would enable access to reliable and sustainable quality electric service for about 300,000 households.

The off-grid energy products/services programme could help as many as 1.8 million people with improved lighting and other domestic and productive uses of modern energy (battery charging;recharging of other appliances, such as telephones and computers; use of fans, radios, television, etc.).

The capacity building and training programmes would create some new institutions and strengthen existing ones, at a minimum, the Federal ministry of Energy, as well as relevant agencies at the level of Federal Member States.

These projects would also create capacity to collect basic data/information on the energy sector, and for monitoring and evaluation.

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Some Info on the #AfricanDevelopmentBank 's [AfDB] $ 803 million #Somalia Energy Sector Needs Assessment and Investment Programme, AfDB is funding a large part of the programme from its own resources rather than donor funds-Huge vote of confidence on #somalis future

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LOOOL Nah if Hargeisa want us to build Power Grids for us we need them to renounce Separatism

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Tremendous news.......bravo Farmaajo.