Guinea-Bissau: Chinese group to install 2,100 streetlights in BIssau

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Guinea-Bissau: Chinese group to install 2,100 streetlights in BIssau

8:00 CAT | 10 Feb 2022

Image: Lusa

A Chinese group has announced the signing of a contract to improve electricity distribution in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, including the installation of 2,100 streetlights.

According to a statement released on Tuesday, the Power Construction Corp (PowerChina) said that the engineering, supply and construction contract provides for installing or repairing substations and installing electrical distribution cables.

The project will be managed by a subsidiary of the Chinese state group, Sinohydro Bureau 1 Co Ltd, which began installation of overhead transmission lines in Bissau last March, also as part of a project to improve the electricity distribution system in the capital.

At the time, the project aimed to build an electricity grid with a capacity of 30 kV, combining overhead lines with medium and low voltage buried lines, with a total length of 50 kilometres, around Bissau.

In March 2020, Sinohydro announced the signing of a contract to build a solar power plant, with an installed capacity of 20 megawatts, in Gardete, on the outskirts of Bissau.

In 2016, around 1,000 public streetlights were installed in the streets of Bissau as part of a project funded by China.

In 2013, China delivered 110 solar-powered streetlights to Guinea-Bissau to be installed in the streets of the capital, at a time when the

African country was struggling with a lack of electricity from the public grid.

Sinohydro also has operations in Mozambique, where it is in charge of part of a project to connect to the electricity grid in neighbouring Malawi, and in Angola, where it will build the new airport of Mbanza Congo, the capital of Zaire province.

On Monday, PowerChina announced it had signed a contract to build, in Barueri, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, the first project to generate power from solid waste in South America.

Source: Lusa