Powergen renewable Energy East Africa Ltd. - feasibility study South Sudan South Sudan has one of the lowest electrification rates in the world, with only 1% of its 12.5 million people able to access to grid electricity, leaving many others to without power or reliant solely upon expensive, dirty diesel generators for limited supply. PowerGen is developing a partnership with a local solar developer, SunGate Solar, to develop a pipeline of at least 15 mini-grids in South Sudan. In the partnership between PowerGen and SunGate Solar, SunGate will bring their local expertise and ability to implement on the ground, while PowerGen will bring the “know-how” for mini-grid development, design, and operations. These mini-grid projects will connect approximately 10,000 connections to electricity, providing access to reliable 24-hour AC power access to approximately 30,000 people i.e. 25,000 residential people and 5,000 businesses. The project will focus on deploying mini-grids in the vibrant market areas of towns, which present an exciting opportunity to power productive uses of energy that will spur further economic activity. Further, these market-focused mini-grids could be good project investments, with robust unit economics due to high consumption and willingness-to-pay among the businesses powered.