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Neither figure has been checked by anyone outside SolarGen, and the entry's hedge \"some\" carries that gap.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-05aaa29fc93fc3f8", "field": "snippet", "text": "alongside a school, clinic, police post and market", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-53c6a3b68d33e7de", "src-557eae823760057c" ], "supportNote": "SolarGen names all four: the system provides power \"to 110 families, a clinic, a school, a police station and a marketplace\". 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The Implementation Status & Results Report of 4 Nov 2025 identifies the same operation (P173088, IBRD/IDA, Investment Project Financing, credit IDA-D9310 of US$150m) and gives its objective as \"to increase access to lower cost and cleaner electricity supply in project areas and to reestablish the electricity supply industry\".", "caveat": "\"Utility-recovery programme\" is the entry's paraphrase; the programme's own name is the Somali Electricity Sector Recovery Project, and re-establishing the electricity supply industry is one of two stated objectives alongside cheaper and cleaner supply.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-e0cf2921405afa56", "field": "snippet", "text": "has since tendered a far larger 6 MWp solar-plus-storage plant", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-e1a61e94c91d7e82", "src-682dd1b2e1adc7a2" ], "supportNote": "The Request for Bids invites sealed bids for the \"Design, Supply, Installation, Testing, and Commissioning of 6MWp Solar PV Power Plant with 10 MWh of Battery Energy Storage System for Wamo Energy Service Company (WESCO), Kismayo City, Somalia\", run as international competitive procurement under the World Bank's Procurement Regulations. 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Both identify WESCO as the recipient utility; the ISR notes elsewhere that Somalia has no national grid, so \"main grid\" here means the city utility's own network, which is the entry's reading rather than a quoted term.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-af5d62896b9368fd", "field": "snippet", "text": "it remained unawarded in the programme's most recent public report", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-682dd1b2e1adc7a2" ], "supportNote": "The ISR of 4 November 2025 (Seq No: 8, ISR058161) still carries the Kismayo contract as unawarded: \"The installation of Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage Systems in Galkayo, Growe, Baidoa has commenced whereas the contractor selection for Berbera, Borama and Kismayo is advianced [sic].\" The results tables repeat that \"The procurement of EPC contractors for an additional 3 ESPs (BEC-Berbera, AEC-Borama, WESCO-Kismayo) with an estimated total capacity of 26MWp expected to be awarded by November 30, 2025\", and record the corresponding installed-capacity indicators as 0.00 as of 15 Oct 2025.", "caveat": "The report gives an expected award date of 30 November 2025, weeks after publication, so the contract may have been awarded since. \"Most recent public report\" describes the ISR series as it stood when the entry was verified, not necessarily today.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-53c6a3b68d33e7de", "title": "SolarGen Technologies — Kismayo Solar Mini-Grid (operator)", "url": "https://solargentechnologies.com/portfolio/kismayo-solar-mini-grid/", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "solargentechnologies.com", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-bcd0efa3f50eff02", "clm-97b65f7b157ce9d8", "clm-de59823ed07a51f3", "clm-58da375c92b94c77", "clm-05aaa29fc93fc3f8" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-07", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-21", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Trägt: 2018, 110 Familien, Schule/Klinik/Polizeiposten/Markt, Dadaab-Rückkehrer; 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Microgrid Knowledge reported in April 2018 that \"A second solar microgrid will be built by SolarGen in a new development for returning refugees in Kismayo.\"", "caveat": "No source calls this Kismayo's first mini-grid; Microgrid Knowledge counts it as SolarGen's second in Somalia.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-97b65f7b157ce9d8", "field": "snippet", "text": "in 2018", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-53c6a3b68d33e7de", "src-557eae823760057c" ], "supportNote": "The operator's project page dates the project in its metadata block, \"Year: 2018\" — the string \"2018\" occurs exactly once on that page. 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The trade report from April 2018 had the project still unbuilt.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-de59823ed07a51f3", "field": "snippet", "text": "for a resettlement area housing refugees returning from Kenya's Dadaab camp", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-53c6a3b68d33e7de", "src-557eae823760057c", "src-47249953e58a1d5a" ], "supportNote": "SolarGen: the grid \"was designed to provide power to resettled communities back from Dadaab Refugee camp, Kenya, one of the largest refugee camps in the world to Kismayo, Somalia\", and calls the site \"a model settlement\". Microgrid Knowledge and Hiiraan Online carry SolarGen's Sean Brooks verbatim: the system serves \"the area designated for refugees returning back to Somalia from Kenya\", in \"a new development for returning refugees\" whose houses the American Refugee Committee was building.", "caveat": "Hiiraan Online is the same Lisa Cohn report republished, not an independent second witness. Only SolarGen names Dadaab specifically; the two press copies say only \"from Kenya\".", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-58da375c92b94c77", "field": "snippet", "text": "powering some 110 households", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-53c6a3b68d33e7de", "src-557eae823760057c", "src-47249953e58a1d5a" ], "supportNote": "SolarGen's project page states \"Servicing: 110 Families\" and, in prose, \"The system provides power to 110 families\". Microgrid Knowledge and Hiiraan Online quote SolarGen's own design target from before construction: \"we designed a system to support 100 households and five public facilities\".", "caveat": "The two figures differ: 110 is the operator's own count on its completed-project page, 100 the design target quoted in April 2018 before the grid was built. 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