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Aug 27, 2013 News
The Guyana Power Light (GPL) has already completed the construction of two substations while works are continuing on five more.
The substations completed are at Vreed-en-Hoop and Edingburg on the West Coast Demerara.
The other unfinished substations include North Ruimveldt (50% complete), Sophia/Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara (90% complete), Good Hope, ECD (89% complete), Columbia, Mahaicony ECD (47% complete) and Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (40% complete.)
GPL noted that the upgrading and expansion of existing power stations at Kingston substation were completed while the one at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice is 10 % and Sophia 89% completed.
The project is a collaborative effort between the Government of Guyana, GPL and China, through a concessionary loan of US$38.96M from the China Export-Import Bank (Eximbank).
This amount is supplemented by US$3.9M for preparatory works, including route clearing, site preparation and backfilling to above 2005 flood levels.
The programme entails the construction of seven new 69/13.8 kV substations; expansion/upgrade of three existing 69/13.8 kV substations; construction of approximately 96 km of 69 kV transmission lines, including a link between the Demerara and Berbice Interconnected Systems; 2.1 km of submarine cable; the construction of a new central control center with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) capabilities, and installation of 251 km of fiber optic cable.
The power company said these developments will result in improve quality of supply, system stability, improved voltage regulation, and reduction of technical losses.
The new 69 Kva Sophia substation, built under the Infrastructure Development Programme (IDP) is considered to be the nerve centre for the Guyana Power and Light (GPL.) This was successfully connected in July last to the national grid.
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