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wiredInUSA - November 2014
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ASIA / AFRICA NEWS
INDEXWire harness manufacturer Lorom has built
its fourth wire harness plant in mainland
China which is expected to be in full
production before the end of 2014.
Founder and CEO of Lorom, YT Yuan, said:
“The investment in our first ever cable and
cable system plant in the Beijing area
demonstrates both our commitment to
serving our Chinese customers even better
with the latest technology locally made,
and our confidence in Lorom’s prosperous
future here in China.”
The new Beijing-based Lorom plant will
manufacture complex wire harness and
cable assemblies for local automotive
customers. Initial planned capacity is
250,000 wire harnesses per year.
Harnessing China
The Kenyan government has instigated
the second phase of its national
infrastructure project. Launched in
2009, the national optic fiber backbone
infrastructure project (NOFBI) aims
at connecting the entire country to
high-speed broadband.
The second phase was launched by ICT
cabinet secretary, Fred Matiang’i, in
Embu county. Matiang’i says the project
will be completed by the end of 2015
and will see all 47 counties’ headquarters
connected with high-speed Internet,
enhancing communication between the
two levels of governments and creating
job opportunities.
The project, which is being undertaken by
China’s Huawei Technologies, is funded
by the Chinese Exim Bank through a
government to government agreement
and to date has laid 4,300km of cable.
Kenyan counties link
Solar Capital De Aar 3, a joint venture
between Italian thin-film module maker
Moncada Energy Group Srl and Solar
Capital Group, has energized its 85.26MW
thin-film PV power plant in South Africa.
A local Moncada subsidiary, Costruzioni
Moncada South Africa (Pty) Ltd, built the
power plant in De Aar, Northern Cape
under a $232 million EPC contract. The
plant relies on amorphous silicon modules
produced by a Moncada subsidiary.
Moncada and Solar Capital provided 25
percent of the project funding, with the
remaining 75 percent supplied by South
Africa’s Standard Bank. Construction on
the project began in January 2013. Solar
Capital De Aar 3 was among the preferred
bidders in the second round of South
Africa’s renewable energy independent
power producer procurement program
(REIPPPP), managed by the South African
department of energy.
South Africa solar
Xinyu Xinwei New Energy Co Ltd, a
wholly owned subsidiary of SPI Solar,
has an engineering, procurement and
construction agreement for a 20MW PV
project inWulaichabuCity, Inner Mongolia.
The agreement with Inner Mongolia
Jingzhaolai Energy Co Ltd marked SPI
Solar’s first agreement for a PV project in
the Inner Mongolia region. The project was
scheduled to begin in October.
Within just a few days, Xinyu Xinwei New
Energy signed a similar agreement for a
30MW PV project in Alxa League, Inner
Mongolia. The project with Alxa League
ZhiWei PV Power Co Ltd is expected to be
connected to the grid by the end of March
2015.
“We are pleased to have announced yet
another EPC project in the Inner Mongolia
region as we continue to establish a
presence there while rapidly penetrating
the market for solar across China overall,”
said Xiaofeng Peng, chairman of SPI. “We
continue to see solid growth opportunities
and are excited by our success thus far in
this important market for SPI Solar.”
PV projects