The Solomon Islands Renewable Energy Development Project plans to finance new solar farms in Guadalcanal and Malaita provinces, along with a utility-scale grid-connected energy storage system in Honiara, the country's capital. It will also support a pilot for rooftop solar at two. The Solomon Islands is taking a significant step towards a sustainable energy future by enhancing its solar power capacity. This ambitious initiative, backed by crucial support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Saudi Fund for Development, is set to reduce the nation's reliance on. The proposed project aims to (i) improve energy security by increasing the clean energy share in the country's energy mix, which is dominated by fossil fuel generation (over 97%); and (ii) contribute to sector reforms for better governance and public-private partnership (PPP) enabling environment. More than 1,200 people in the remote community of Takataka, East Are'are, are now benefitting from clean, reliable solar power through an Australia-supported partnership that is bringing off-grid renewable energy to one of the Solomon Islands' most isolated regions. The project will reduce the need for costly shipments of diesel to the provincial centers. The solar “hub” at Takataka Cultural Centre in Solomon Islands' Malaita province is now installed and energised, a major milestone for the Off-Grid Renewable Energy Partnership between Superfly Limited, Mai-Ma'asina Green Belt (MMGB), Save the Children Solomon Islands and the Australian Government.