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Kiritimati Island, the world’s largest coral atoll and a key development hub for Kiribati with a rapidly growing population (currently roughly 8,000 people), has a dilapidated electricity micro-grid plagued by blackouts/brownouts and extending to only 40 percent of the island’s population.  Neighbouring inhabited Line Islands Tabuaeran and Teraina have no grid.  The EKLIPSE project aims to sustainably improve power supply and access in the Line Islands with a focus on renewable energy (solar PV and BESS integrated with existing diesel generators), efficiency and local capacity building.