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transmission line from Tanzania mainland to Zanzibar.
The US$9m project is a part of a five-year US$698.1m grant
extended to Tanzania by the US-based Millennium
Challenge Corp (MCC).
Under the project, the company will construct the overhead
transmission line from Ubungo substation to Tegeta and Ras
Kiromoni on the shores of the Indian Ocean off the Tanzania
Mainland.
The line will be undersea to Ras Fumba in Zanzibar and is
transmitted overhead to Mtoni substation in Zanzibar.
Japan-based Viscas will be responsible for the construction
of a submarine cable to connect the two overhead lines of
the project, scheduled to be complete in August 2012,
reports theeastafrican.com.
It is expected to boost Zanzibar’s power output and help
meet growing demand by adding to the country’s
dilapidated 40MW power transmission infrastructure.
MCA-T chief executive officer Bernard Mchomvu said the
100MW second Zanzibar inter-connector project will
support the existing 45MW transmission system to the
island.
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Increase in aluminium
cable production
Noval Jamalullail, chairman of the Indonesian Cable
Manufacturers Association (Apkabel), has
said that aluminium cable production will
increase by 20 per cent from 150,000 metric
tonnes to 180,000 tonnes in 2012.
He said the first part of the government’s
ambitious 10,000 megawatt power plant programme, which
was started in 2006, had contributed to the increase.
“The programme is a big project and it needs to be
completed by the end of this year; then we aim to boost the
aluminium cable production,” Mr Noval said, after a
mini-seminar on the next wire and Tube Düsseldorf.
The second part of the power plant programme will begin in
2012. He added that factory expansion was a part of the
plan to increase production.
At this moment, there are 38 factories that produce
aluminium cable. “However, expansion does not mean that
we build new factories. It only means that we add the
required equipment that the factories do not yet have,” Mr
Noval added.
Apkabel data shows that annual cable production is
500,000 tons, consisting of power cable at 310,000 tons;
telecommunication cable, 130,000 tons; special cable,
50,000 tons; and enamelled wire, 10,000 tons.
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Wind out of the SAIL as
profits fall 50 per cent
India’s largest steel producer, Steel Authority of India Ltd
(SAIL), has reported a 54.6% year-on-year decline in net
profit at Rs 495 crore for the quarter ended September
against Rs 1,090 crore last year, as high input costs and a
strong dollar hit profit.
A stronger dollar resulted in a notional loss of Rs 509 crore
during the quarter.
The company, however, remained bullish on increased
demand and stable steel prices looking forward, despite a
gloomy global scenario.
“There is definitely going to be a rise in demand in the
second half (of this fiscal year),” said CS Verma, chairman,
SAIL. “Steel prices have globally come down. They have
been relatively stable in India. I don’t foresee a further dip in
steel prices.”
Total income also rose 3% year-on-year at Rs 11,470 crore
MP power crisis
Amid a severe power crisis in Madhya Pradesh the state’s
power generating company is working hard to increase
capacity, not only to meet the growing demands but to save
the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from a possible
backlash during the 2013 assembly polls.
Against a peak demand of between 7500MW and 8000MW,
the state generates 2932.5MW from thermal power plants,
915MW from hydro power sources and purchases power
from other states.
“We will start generation from two units of 250MW each
from the Satpuda thermal power plant, Sarni and also
1200MW from the Singaji thermal power plant (Phase-I) in
2012-13 to enhance power generation in the state,” Madhya
Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited (MPPGCL)
chairman and chief managing director, K M Sajnani said.
In addition, a new 660MW unit is to replace an existing five
62.5MW units in Sarni. The proposal and the feasibility
report to set up this unit has been sent to the Project Review
Committee of the state government, which is expected to
give its approval shortly.
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