Advancing Sustainability in Performance, Infrastructure, and Reliability of the Energy Sector in the (WB-P170928)

Countries
  • Palestine, West Bank, Gaza
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
A
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Nov 14, 2019
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Ministry of Finance and Planning
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Energy
  • Law and Government
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Advisory Services, Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 14.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Grant Amount (USD)
$ 14.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 63.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Media Documents
Other Related Projects
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS May 6, 2020

Disclosed by Bank Jul 25, 2019

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to bank documents, the project objective is to improved operational, commercial and financial performance of electricity sector institutions and increased diversification of energy sources.

The project has four components:

  1. Improving infrastructure for regional electricity interconnections
    • Rehabilitation of PETL-IEC connection points
    • Construction of North Gaza-Israel 161KV interconnection
    • Upgrade of West Bank-Jordan existing interconnection
  2. Improving sustainability of service delivery
    • Revenue Protection Program (Phase 2) in six West Bank & Gaza DISCOs
  3. Enabling Private Sector Engagement in Renewable Energy
    • Grid reinforcement and upgrade to enable evacuation of utility-scale and small-scale RE
    • Scale-up Rooftop Solar PV systems for Health, MSMEs and Residential Sector
    • Pilot improved battery recycling in Gaza
  4. Technical Assistance, Capacity Building and Project Management
Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

World Bank Special Financing - USD 14,000,000

Partnership For Intrastructure Development Mdtf - USD 49,000,000


Contact Information
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World Bank:
Monali Ranade
Senior Energy Specialist

Borrower:
Ministry of Finance and Planning
Laila Sbiah-Eghreib
International Relations and Projects Department
mofirdg@palnet.com

Implementing Agency:
Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority (PENRA)
Zafer Milhem
Chairman
chairman@menr.org 

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