Nigeria to benefit from $250 M of electricity grid funding
Power stakeholders are expecting improvement in electricity transmission and distribution with $250 M funding intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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Linxon wins order for substation in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Linxon has won an order from Samsung C&T in Saudi Arabia to engineer, procure and construct a 380 kV substation.
Vinci Energies wins $242M T&D contract in Senegal
VINCI Energies has won the Société d’Electricité du Sénégal (SENELEC) contract to install five new extra high voltage transformer stations, nearly 200 km of overhead and underground EHV transmission lines, and over 100 distribution substations in various parts of the country and a regional load dispatch centre.
Indonesia to spend $125B on adding generating capacity
India, Mumbai: From 2013 to 2022, Indonesia’s only government-owned corporation in electricity generation, transmission and distribution PT PLN has a long-term plan for an additional generating capacity of 59.5 GW, with a total estimated expenditure of around $125 billion.