The Project will include the following components:
Component 1: Provision of 2.5 million service connections to rural consumers. It is going to provide approximately 65,000 small low-voltage (6.35/0.23 kV) transformers, 75,000 km of service drops and 2.5 million electric meters to 77 Pally Bidyut Samities (PBSs, or rural electric cooperatives) in Bangladesh.
Component 2: Upgrade of grid substations and conversion of overhead distribution lines into underground cables. It will (i) replace the small inefficient 50/75 MVA air-insulated systems at Bashundhara and Uttara grid substations with larger efficient 80/120 MVA gas-insulated systems; and (ii) convert 85 circuit-km of existing 33 kV overhead lines into underground cables.