“The only requirement for industrial customers wishing to benefit from this opportunity is just to complete the online new connection application available on REG website,” REG’s announcement reads in part.
Usually, fees charged from investors setting up new industries varied with the distance between the industry being set up and the electricity feeder nearby.
For instance, the new industry located in one kilometer from the feeder was charged Rwf40 million including the power transformer.
The World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2018 indicated that Rwanda’s energy sector improved from 119th place in 2017 to 68th in 2018, an indicator that enabled Rwanda to improve from position 41 to 29th as the easiest country for doing business globally.
The report also indicated that Rwanda was a country that had done most reforms in Sub-Sahara in the course of the latest 15 years in easing business doing.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Energy Group (REG), Ron Weiss, said: “We want to continue to improve and we are doing several reforms to be able to offer the big clients with better services in order to bring more industries and increase development.”
Ron Weiss said that one of the main issues new businesses face is that they have so many costs as ” they need to build the factory, to have employees and to do so many things. If we help them with electricity, I think it can support them a lot.”
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