PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Private Infrastructure Development Group: Power Stations (23 March 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will list all Private Infrastructure Development Group investments in power generation facilities using (a) diesel, (b) crude oil and (c) Heavy Fuel Oil as a primary or secondary fuel, specifying for each investment the (i) primary fuel type, (ii) secondary fuel type, (iii) initial investment value and (iv) current net asset value.

Asked by:
Nadia Whittome (Labour)

PIDG’s strategy now rules out any investing in coal. This is in line with UK Government policy, including the recent announcement at the Africa Investment Summit.

Of the power generation projects which Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) has supported, 2 use diesel and 5 use Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) as primary fuel sources. PIDG funding has also directly supported diesel as a back-up fuel source for one solar power project.

Project Name	Country	Commitment* ($ million)	Commitment year	Primary	Secondary
AES-Sonel	Cameroon	35.5	2003	HFO
Rabai Power Ltd.	Kenya	32.77	2008	HFO	convertible to LNG
Smart Energy Solutions	Multiple Countries (SSA)	20	2014	Diesel
Tobene Power, Senegal	Senegal	32	2014	HFO
Karadeniz, Multiple countries	Indonesia	15	2015	Diesel
Albatros Energie Mali SA, Mali	Mali	14.66	2016	HFO
Tobene II	Senegal	7.45	2017	HFO	convertible to LNG
Archipelago Hybrid Power Solutions, Indonesia	Indonesia	8.6	2017	Solar PV	Diesel
TOTAL Diesel Primary ($ million)	35
TOTAL HFO Primary ($ million)	122.38

Data on all PIDG investment commitments are available online via its Results Monitoring Database and its annual reports (https://www.pidg.org/). Data on the current net asset value of these investments is commercially confidential and not published.

Answered by:
Sir James Duddridge (Conservative)
31 March 2020