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The Fiji government is working with the World Bank and ANZ Fiji branch to secure financing for its rural electrification project.
This, in a bid to get Fiji’s rural communities to use renewable energy sources and lessen their dependence on fossil fuel.
In an interview with Australia’s ABC radio, acting director at the Department of Energy Peceli Nakalevu said the new financing project will help families and schools purchase solar energy systems to cater for their electricity needs.
“We are working in collaboration with the World Bank and the ANZ has actually come in under a sustainable energy financing project.
“Under this particular project, it actually provides the finances for people to actually get renewable energy through solar, where they can actually get in other appliances to be run on solar energy as well,” Nakalevu told ABC.
Under its continuing rural electrification project, the department has already installed 1,200 solar powered units in rural schools and homes on lease basis and this is expected to be complemented by the new renewable energy project.
Rural communities pay around F$14 a month for their electricity using the government’s solar powered units.
