Description
The objectives of the Project are: to provide opportunity for cash-generating business, job creation adequate education, and health services to rural people in Bhutan through electrification by indigenously generated hydropower and solar panels. The scope of the Project includes: Part A: Rural Electrification by 33 kV and 11 kV distribution system; Part B: Remote rural electrification by solar panels for schools, hospitals, and other local community facilities; and Part C: Small-scale pilot Supe... Read More
| Country |
Bhutan
|
| Project Number |
29242-013 |
| Project Type or Modality of Assistance |
Loan
|
| Financing |
Public sector (Sovereign) |
| Status |
|
| Approval Number |
Loan No. 1712
|
| Approval Date |
25 Nov 1999 |
| Closing Date |
12 Jan 2006 |
| Sector / Subsector Classification |
Energy
/ Electricity Transmission and Distribution |
| Thematic Classification |
Gender equity
|
| Safeguard Categories |
Environment: B
|
Results Delivered
| Distribution lines installed or updgraded (kilometers) |
427 |
| New households connected to electricity (number) |
8,090 |
| Greenhouse gas emission reduction (tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year) |
2 |
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