The Government of Papua New Guinea (GoPNG) signed a K150m Loan Agreement
with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to kick start a Town Electrification
Investment Program (TEIP).
New gas turbines to boost supply in NCD
Two new Titan 130 Gas Turbines have been installed at Kanudi.
The machines, worth about K55 million, arrived in July this year
and were installed by Contractor Turbomech (Switzerland) and sub contractor
Aisi Bishman including PPL engineers.
Transmission Line Project Completed
The 132kV transmission line from Erap to Hidden Valley in Morobe
Province has been completed.
The 110km line was constructed using conventional lattice steel towers
and will carry power supply from the Ramu System into the Hidden Valley
Gold Mine operations.
The total cost of the project is K16 million.