Project Description
A sovereign loan of EUR 12.5 million to the Republic of Azerbaijan (the "Borrower") for the benefit of the Ganja City Executive Power (the "Project Entity"). The Bank's loan will be co-financed by a capital expenditure grant of EUR 2.5 million from an international donor.
The loan proceeds and capital grant funds will be used to finance modernisation of the street lighting networks on selected streets in the City of Ganja (the "City"), including LED luminaries, automated lighting control and monitoring systems as well as new poles and cables.
Project Objectives
The Project will aim to create substantial energy savings by improving street lighting infrastructure in the City. It will also optimise operational and maintenance costs of street lighting assets and avoid CO2 emissions, thus enhancing quality of service and standards for public health and safety.
Transition Impact
ETI score: 70
The Project will help to promote the Green transition quality by achieving substantial energy savings through installation of LED luminaries, which will also result in similar reductions in operational costs and carbon emissions. The Project will ensure that new luminaires meet advanced energy efficiency criteria and can be integrated into remote control system to enable energy and CO2 emission savings through dimming and other advanced street lighting technologies.
The Project will also support the Well-governed transition objective by promoting a lifecycle cost assessment through a Design, Supply, and Install contract with energy performance requirements that would be one of the first to be introduced in the country.
Client Information
AZERBAIJAN SOVEREIGN
The Borrower is the Republic of Azerbaijan represented by the Ministry of Finance. The Ganja City Executive Power, the local territorial-administrative management entity of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Ganja city, will be an implementing agency.
EBRD Finance Summary
EUR 12,500,000.00
Total Project Cost
EUR 15,000,000.00
The Project will benefit from technical cooperation assignments to support project preparation and implementation and a co-financing with capital expenditure grant of EUR 2.5 million from an international donor.
Additionality
EBRD offers financing that is not available in the market from commercial sources on reasonable terms and conditions, which are necessary to structure the Project.
The EBRD helps the Client to mitigate carbon transition risks and to take climate action, such as to move towards a low carbon transition pathway.
Client seeks EBRD expertise over energy and resource efficiency and climate resilience financing via provision of energy and climate audits, minimum performance standards of technologies, climate related strategies and policies, monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems etc.
Client seeks/makes use of EBRD expertise on higher inclusion and gender standards.
The Client seeks the EBRD's expertise on the best international procurement standards and best available technology in the street lighting sector.
Environmental and Social Summary
Categorised B in accordance with the 2019 Environmental and Social Policy. The Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) has been undertaken by independent external consultants as part of the Feasibility Study and specifically focussed on safe disposal practices of old mercury containing lamps, worker and community safety, stakeholder engagement and grievance management. The ESDD found that the E&S impacts associated with the modernisation of the street lighting infrastructure and replacing the existing mercury-based lamps with modern energy-efficient LED lamps will be mainly positive, resulting in energy savings and improved street safety and visibility conditions for the local population in the City. Potential future adverse impacts of the Project will be limited and site specific and will be addressed through appropriate mitigation measures included in the corrective Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP). The ESAP requires the client among other things to develop E&S management system in line with best international standards, improve human resource management practices, develop E&S Management Plans for the construction activities and the refurbishment phase for including in the tender documents and work contracts. This will cover appropriate disposal of the old mercury lamps, preventative management of health and safety risks to workers and public safety, and development of a traffic safety management plan for the refurbishment works. A non-technical summary (NTS) and a Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) have also been prepared and will be disclosed by the client locally. The Bank will monitor the Project's environmental and social performance and implementation of the ESAP through annual environmental and social reports by the client as well as site visits when deemed necessary.
Technical Cooperation and Grant Financing
The following technical co-operation ("TC") assignments are envisaged as part of the Project:
- Technical Due Diligence
- Institutional Development Study
- Environmental and Social Due Diligence
- Project Implementation Support
- Corporate Development Programme
Company Contact Information
Farid Abdulzade
farid.abdulzade@gmail.com
+994222561504
http://www.ganja-ih.gov.az/index.html
Heydar Aliyev square, Administrative Building, Ganja city, AZ2000, Azerbaijan
PSD last updated
31 May 2022
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