This report is prepared by Hydro-Electric Corporation. The report is an Inception Report of the Project Owner’s Engineer (POE), Entura, for the Cook Islands Renewable Energy Sector Project. The report details the POE’s findings on the status of the project, and presents a detailed plan for implementation. The Project will construct up to six solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants with a total installed capacity of about 3 megawatts-peak (MWp) coupled with batteries to store electricity from solar energy, and rehabilitate the existing distribution network for Phase 1 (Mangaia, Mauke, and Mitiaro) and Phase 2 (Aitutaki, Atiu, and Rarotonga) subprojects.