Project Finance Facility for Eskom (NDB-projectfinancefacilit)

Countries
  • South Africa
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • New Development Bank (NDB)
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
U
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
Apr 13, 2016
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
Eskom Holdings State-Owned-Company Limited
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 0.20 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.
Currency conversion note:
Bank reported Rand 2.88 billion (USD 180 million)
Converted using 2016-04-13 exchange rate.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 0.25 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.
Currency conversion note:
Bank reported Rand 3.60 billion (USD 225 million)
Converted using 2016-04-13 exchange rate.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ NDB website

Updated in EWS Apr 8, 2020

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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 banks documents, the New Development Bank's (NDB) Project Finance Facility (PFF) is proposed to support the development of grid connection infrastructure. The project will also help increase electricity supply to the Soweto area.

With the objective to develop grid connection infrastructure, the NDB will provide a PFF loan of USD 180.0 million to Eskom Holdings State-Owned-Company Limited (Eskom). The grid connection infrastructure will be used for renewable energy projects and augmentation of the Eskom transmission network to the Soweto area.

The PFF project will be divided into sub-projects. Current sub-projects include integration of 7 renewable energy projects of independent power producers, integration of expedited independent power producer project for Upington, construction of transmission lines and substation for Soweto area, and construction of transmission lines for Ankerlig-Sterrekus. Future sub-projects will be proposed by Eskom, subject to selection criteria and approval from the NDB, to ensure alignment with the overall development objective of the project.

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.
Private Actor 1 Private Actor 1 Role Private Actor 1 Sector Relation Private Actor 2 Private Actor 2 Role Private Actor 2 Sector
- - - - Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd Client -

Contact Information
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Contact information not provided at the time of disclosure

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