https://scandasia.com/swedish-governmen ... -cambodia/
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... ered-solar

The Swedish government has provided funding for a pilot project for a solar energy micro grid launched by The Ministry of Mines and Energy and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Cambodia.

The solar energy micro grid have been set up in three villages within two communes on a remote island of Kampong Chhnang province’s Boribor district to provide energy for a total of 140 homes and businesses. The villages have previously not had any electricity aside from small diesel fuel generators.

Despite the fact that the project is relatively small in scale given that it only provides power to 140 households at a total cost of $30-$40,000, the project is a welcome development because it supported the government’s strategy to promote rural electricity in Cambodia. According to an energy ministry report, Cambodia has provided electricity to more than 97 percent of all villages across the country. The ministry had previously announced a goal to provide electricity to 100 per cent of all villages by 2021 or 2022.

Victor Jona, director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Mines and Energy said, “The solar energy grid project is not a new thing for Cambodia. In the past, through the Rural Electrification Fund managed by the Electricity Authority of Cambodia, solar energy has been distributed and sold to people in rural areas and so far there are more than 10,000 households being powered that way.”

Victor Jona said that increased knowledge and education would ultimately serve to reduce poverty in Cambodia and that the project makes a great deal of difference to the children of those 140 households who now have the ability to study at home in the evening.

In a Facebook post, the UNDP Cambodia said that if the programme proves to be successful it could potentially be implemented on a much wider scale and be replicated in 237 other off-grid villages across Cambodia.

That's odd. Boribor is hardly in the middle of nowhere. I'm assuming it's a fishing community right on the edge of the Tonle Sap.

The Swedish government has provided funding.

Despite the fact that the project is relatively small in scale given that it only provides power to 140 households at a total cost of $30-$40,000.

Why did the Swedish government have to provide funding?

the Cambodian government’s strategy to promote rural electricity in Cambodia.

What is the Cambodian governments strategy, exactly? Solicit funds from western countries so that Cambodia doesn't have to pay?

I heard for one day in Oz (maybe SA) all power was from renewable energy.

John Bingham wrote:

Brody wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:02 am

The Swedish government has provided funding.

Despite the fact that the project is relatively small in scale given that it only provides power to 140 households at a total cost of $30-$40,000.

Why did the Swedish government have to provide funding?

They didn't have to. They are likely using Swedish technology and engineers so most of the money for the project goes back to them, plus they get brownie points for being kind to poor folk in the developing world.

No, you know very well they use local companies for small scale projects. For sure it won't be a government officials' brother's company...

But seriously, they use local companies. They don't bring in equipment and engineers for smalls scale projects like that.

Brody wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:02 am

The Swedish government has provided funding.

Despite the fact that the project is relatively small in scale given that it only provides power to 140 households at a total cost of $30-$40,000.

Why did the Swedish government have to provide funding?

the Cambodian government’s strategy to promote rural electricity in Cambodia.

What is the Cambodian governments strategy, exactly? Solicit funds from western countries so that Cambodia doesn't have to pay?

Cambodia like many other Asian countries, is rich enough to get their own solar and use their own riels but as usual they continued to rip us off with scams, abuse us, exploit our good nature and misused aid and USD from the West.

How do they abuse us?

Sweden got alot of money that is handed out for different projects. They dont have to, its just what they do.

If i want to start a project here i can apply for gonvernment funding too.