Adrar Solar Initiative and Decentralized Electrification in the Northern Coastline of Mauritania through Hybrid (Wind/Diesel) Systems

The primary objective of the project is to contribute to addressing the country’s rural energy service delivery needs by increasing electricity access to the rural and low-income settlements in the ADRAR desert areas together with the northern shoreline which has an interesting economic potential. A secondary objective is to use the climate change-energy poverty reduction linkage to spearhead the fight against rural poverty in the context of an on-going energy sector restructuring exercise, which is progressing well and needs additional concrete operational successes to sustain the government’s commitment to the reforms. The project will demonstrate wind/diesel hybrid system in 7 villages along the Coast and solar systems in villages in the Adrar region, as well as strengthen the capacity of the national rural energy agency ADER.