ECOWAS Renewable Energy Facility (EREF-2)

This first edition booklet provides summarizes the clean mini-grids projects being implemented in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region through the ECOWAS Renewable Energy Facility (EREF).The overall objective of the facility is to contribute to sustainable development in rural and peri-urban areas of West Africa through increased deployment and use of reliable and affordable renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and services. The specific objective of EREF is to create a favorable investment and business environment that leads to accelerated deployment and use of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and services in peril-urban and rural areas of the region.