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Pacific Islands growth for NZ electricity company
‘Pacific Islands growth for NZ electricity company’
8 September, 2011
A Whangarei
lines company playing a crucial role in the upgrade and
expansion of Samoa’s electricity network is targeting
other Pacific Islands for further growth.
The
announcement comes as the Northpower takes part in the
Pacific Showcase in Auckland this week – the first public
event at the Cloud.
The Samoan projects are part of an
Asian Development Bank funded programme – ‘Power
Expansion Project for Samoa’.
Northpower Business
Development General Manager Sean Horgan says Northpower is
currently looking other project opportunities throughout the
Pacific Islands.
“We are making a strategic
investment in the Pacific Islands with a view to ongoing
expansion - we are there for the long term,” says Mr
Horgan.
“We are an electricity distribution network
owner with our own hydro station and diversity that covers
SCADA management, telecommunications (fibre networks),
generation, transmission, and distribution electricity
systems. This is supported by an in depth engineering
capability that allows us to deliver turnkey projects
through to developing maintenance systems and
programmes.
“We have already completed a network
load flow and system protection study on the generation and
sub-transmission network for the Electric power Company
(EPC) of Samoa, as well as an upgrade of the switchgear in
each of the hydro and diesel generation stations on the main
island of Upolu.
Mr Horgan says Northpower is project
managing the design, build and installation of the high
voltage system at the Fiaga Power Station which will link
back into the main control system at the plant.
Fiaga, a greenfields power station, is a 30 megawatt
diesel plant which will have seven diesel generators running
on a blend of diesel and coconut oil. When complete, it will
be responsible for the generation of over 50% of Samoa’s
power supply.
“We are also engaged in the design,
build and install of the Fuluasou substation (including the
development of a new National Control Centre for Samoa)
where EPC will centralise the management of its generation,
distribution and transmission electricity
network.”
Much of Northpower’s current projects in
Samoa will be complete by 2013, says Mr
Horgan.
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