The programme will also support digital monitoring systems, domestic solar manufacturing, energy storage deployment and PV recycling initiatives. Additional initiatives include support for model solar villages, distributed solar demonstration projects, improved vendor accountability and stronger frameworks for end-of-life management of PV modules and battery waste. The US$85.7 million project will be developed by Manatuto Renewables Power and comprises a 73.7MWac grid-connected solar PV plant paired with an 80.2MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), alongside transmission infrastructure and associated facilities. The financing package includes US$12.2 million in senior debt from ADB, US$19 million from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and US$12.2 million from JICA. In 2017, ADB said it was supporting the deployment of solar PV systems across five of the Cook Islands as part of the government’s target to supply all inhabited islands with renewable energy by 2020.