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LS Cable & System has won two
contracts, worth a total of $102 million,
to supply power cables to Qatar.
The company will supply 220kV level
extra high-voltage transmission cables
to the Qatar General Electricity & Water
Corporation, and deliver large-capacity
electric transmission 1,000V bus ducts
to the Public Works Authority of Qatar
for the Hamad Medical City project.
Of the two projects, the former was
initiated when Qatar realised that its
current power grid could not effectively
keep pace with the increasing power
demand generated by the continual
economic development and
urbanisation. For this project, LS Cable
& System will supply a total of 157km
of 220kV level extra high-voltage
cables and joint kits to the Doha area
by July 2013.
The second contract is to supply
Hyundai E&C with bus ducts, used in
buildings and factories to transmit
large amounts of electricity through a
small space.
Middle East countries are currently
promoting petrochemical, refinery and
power plant projects as well as
large-scale public works and
construction projects to boost their
economies with extra spending.
LS Cable & System – Korea
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A news report from Kenya states that, “an Indian firm will
construct a substation and power transmission lines that
will be used to evacuate electricity from two power plants
at Olkaria in Naivasha.
“KEC International, which signed the $27 million contract with
electricity generation company, KenGen, will design, supply
and install a substation and lines for transmitting power from
Olkaria 1 and IV, and feeding to the national grid.
“Recently, KenGen contracted a consortium of Toyota
Tsusho Corporation of Japan and Hyundai Engineering
Company Ltd of Korea to upgrade Olkaria I to produce an
additional 140MW, and construct a new Olkaria IV at a
cost of about $400 million.
“The project, which will increase three-fold the amount of
power generated from geothermal sources from the
current 150MW to 430MW, is expected to feed the
national power grid by April 2014.”
KEC International Ltd – India
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$102m worth of
contracts in Qatar
Geothermal
plants for
Kenya
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