“While these projects will help build energy supply on the continent, the International Energy Agency has said sub-Saharan Africa needs to invest $300 billion in order to achieve universal electricity access by 2030.”
While that sounds like a lot of dosh – and it is – in the grand scheme of things the benefits would be unimaginably transformative.
• Construction of 365 Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs), with a capacity of 850kW each, for a
total project installed capacity of 310 MW connected via a 33kV collection grid to the substation;
• Installation of 365 Step-up Transformers 0.69/33 kV per Unit;
• Construction of a sectionalized 33kV Substation, Step-up Power Transformers 33/220(400) kV;
• Installation of three Dynamic Reactive Power Compensation Systems (Statcoms);
• Installation of a SCADA System;
• Construction of the LTWP Accommodation Village, which houses 148 people;
• Construction and maintenance of 130km of internal access roads; and,
• Upgrading of 208km road from Laisamis to Sarima.
While that sounds like a lot of dosh – and it is – in the grand scheme of things the benefits would be unimaginably transformative.
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