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This support comes via AFD’s concessional sovereign loan and will go towards financing a project titled 'Construction and Augmentation of Substation and Installation of the Capacitor Bank in Power System under DPDC’.
The credit facility agreement from the French Development Agency (AFD) worth 100 million Euros was signed recently, said the Embassy of France on Thursday.
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Fatima Yasmin, Secretary, Economic Relations Division, Ministry of Finance and Benoit Chassatte, AFD Country Director for Bangladesh signed the deal with Jean-Marin Schuh, Ambassador of France to Bangladesh as co-signatory.
In addition to that a Grant Facility Agreement for a delegated grant from the EU-AIF worth 12 million euros world be signed in the beginning of 2021.
AFD’s loan aims to equip existing infrastructure with these new, innovative and reliable technologies in order to ensure services are prepared for the future.
Moreover, by integrating digital technology in our projects, we speed up the adoption of renewable energies and thus contribute towards achieving the country’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The additional 12 million Euro grant will support for piloting the smart grid project in 5 substations in Dhaka.
The smart grid gives shape to this transformation, by making the grid more effective and efficient.
A total of 1,141,000 people will benefit from a significant improvement in the quality of electricity service through the project and it helps fight climate change by preventing an accumulated 104,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year.