To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list all Private Infrastructure Development Group investments in power generation facilities using (a) diesel, (b) crude oil and (c) Heavy Fuel Oil as a primary or secondary fuel, specifying for each investment the (i) primary fuel type, (ii) secondary fuel type, (iii) initial investment value and (iv) current net asset value.
Answered on
31 March 2020
PIDG’s strategy now rules out any investing in coal. This is in line with UK Government policy, including the recent announcement at the Africa Investment Summit.
Of the power generation projects which Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) has supported, 2 use diesel and 5 use Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) as primary fuel sources. PIDG funding has also directly supported diesel as a back-up fuel source for one solar power project.
Project Name | Country | Commitment* | Commitment year | Primary | Secondary |
AES-Sonel | Cameroon | 35.5 | 2003 | HFO | |
Rabai Power Ltd. | Kenya | 32.77 | 2008 | HFO | convertible to LNG |
Smart Energy Solutions | Multiple Countries (SSA) | 20 | 2014 | Diesel | |
Tobene Power, Senegal | Senegal | 32 | 2014 | HFO | |
Karadeniz, Multiple countries | Indonesia | 15 | 2015 | Diesel | |
Albatros Energie Mali SA, Mali | Mali | 14.66 | 2016 | HFO | |
Tobene II | Senegal | 7.45 | 2017 | HFO | convertible to LNG |
Archipelago Hybrid Power Solutions, Indonesia | Indonesia | 8.6 | 2017 | Solar PV | Diesel |
TOTAL Diesel Primary ($ million) | 35 | ||||
TOTAL HFO Primary ($ million) | 122.38 |
Data on all PIDG investment commitments are available online via its Results Monitoring Database and its annual reports (https://www.pidg.org/). Data on the current net asset value of these investments is commercially confidential and not published.