By KONOPA KANA postcourier (8/06/2012)
PAPUA New Guinea Sustainable Development Project (PNGSDP) is ready to implement rural electrification to remote areas in Papua New Guinea and that can be made possible with Western Power, a subsidiary company of PNGSDP. Western Power is a 100 per cent owned by PNGSDP Limited provides electricity that is affordable and reliable to the people of PNG, particularly Western Province. According to the PNGSDP 2011 annual report Western Power’s long term goal is to promote diversified and balanced energy development of the people in Western Province with cheap electricity energy source for local communities beyond the life of the Ok Tedi Mine project.
PAPUA New Guinea Sustainable Development Project (PNGSDP) is ready to implement rural electrification to remote areas in Papua New Guinea and that can be made possible with Western Power, a subsidiary company of PNGSDP. Western Power is a 100 per cent owned by PNGSDP Limited provides electricity that is affordable and reliable to the people of PNG, particularly Western Province. According to the PNGSDP 2011 annual report Western Power’s long term goal is to promote diversified and balanced energy development of the people in Western Province with cheap electricity energy source for local communities beyond the life of the Ok Tedi Mine project.
The report stated that Western Power completed construction works on North Fly District this year and these projects are the last of the 31 mini grids projects undertaken between 2007 and 2012 with a combine a installed capacity of the mini grids stands at 1.8 Mega Watts and provides electricity services to 41 villages to a total of 12, 000 people. In the report Western Power took over electricity vending operations at Kiunga in 2011 at the request of the Fly River Provincial Government (FRPG) and since the commencement of the operation over 600 customers are connected to the rural electrification program. Western Power is responsible for the management and operation of the power supply facilities in the 6 government stations in the Middle and South Fly of Lake Murray, Awaba, Morehead, Balimo, Wipim and Obo. Meanwhile PNGSDP owns 58 communication towers in Western Province and these towers are managed by Western Power and Digicel was contracted to build the towers at the cost of over K70 million.
Digicel also entered into an agreement with PNGSDP to install their equipment on the towers to provide communication services and the present network provides communication coverage to 90 per cent of the people in Western Province.
Gerup people should see what they can contribute to the development of their village for the betterment for themselves and their neighboring communities including the public servants.
ReplyDeleteOne such activity is the building is pool resources together to erect towers that can be leased to utilities such as the TV companies and obviously the mobile telephone companies.
This can be a form of income for the whole village. It is a big plan and expensive but the benefits is mega. In the long term it is the best and will really bring the much needed funds annually.
PNGSDP is the model that any organization could see which is paving the way.