Healthcare: Havenhill, Others Receive $2.3M Grant To Power 245 Facilities
Havenhill Synergy Limited, a clean-tech utility and energy access company, was recently awarded a grant funding from Power Africa through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to electrify 50 primary healthcare facilities in Oyo State, Nigeria.
Reports have shown that approximately 60 per cent of the healthcare facilities in Africa do not have access to electricity and of those that do, less than 30 per cent of them have reliable access to electricity. In order for these healthcare facilities to deliver quality and efficient services, access to reliable electricity is important.
In addition to the grant funding received by the company in 2020, the funding is expected to enable the expansion of the solar and energy storage systems to 50 additional primary health care centers in Oyo State using an energy-as-a-service business model. Furthermore, Havenhill will be injecting substantial equity & debt as the counterpart funding to this grant provided by Power Africa to electrify the healthcare facilities.
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As he spoke about the grant, Olusegun Odunaiya, the Chief Executive Officer of Havenhill Synergy Limited, stated that, “this is a win for the industry and the healthcare facilities to be electrified. We are excited for this scale-up phase of our Energising Healthcare Initiative that will enable over 700,000 patients yearly to receive better healthcare service. We are grateful for yet another opportunity from the Power Africa team. We are delighted to further contribute to the improvement of the Nigerian health sector through the provision of reliable electricity that would aid the work of medical practitioners and caregivers and also impact the lives of those within the communities.”
The company said it is committed to deploying clean-energy solutions to bridge the energy gap and improve the quality of healthcare service delivery across the country as part of its Energizing Healthcare Initiative.
During the past two years, the energy access company has installed over 1MW of solar-hybrid systems in rural, peri-urban, and urban healthcare facilities throughout the South-West and South-South Nigeria.
Under the ‘COVID-19 and Beyond’ programme under the World Bank and African Development Bank Group-funded Nigeria Electrification Project, 14 Tertiary Healthcare Facilities in South-South Nigeria were electrified.
The $2.3 million grant that Havenhill received will be shared with four other companies who have also shown competence in healthcare facility electrification (HFE) — Aptech Africa, D.Light, Equatorial Power Ltd., and Solar Works B.V to electrify 245 off-grid healthcare facilities in Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
