WCA September 2015

news Industry Wind power in Senegal AMERICAN Capital Energy & Infrastructure (ACEI) is planning to invest €76m in a 151.8MW wind power project in Senegal. Believed to be the largest wind farm planned in West Africa, the €305m project is being developed in three phases of 50.8MW over three years, and is expected to reduce the country’s dependency on oil-fired power generation. ACEI will work with Sarreole, the project developer for funding development costs and project equity. The project is in accord with the Senegal government’s efforts to diversify the energy mix, as well as to increase the use of renewable energy to meet the energy demand. ACEI’s CEO and co-founder, Paul Hanrahan, said: “The Senegalese government has stated that it is committed to shifting from diesel-based power generation to lower-cost energy sources, such as wind power, to lower the cost of electricity, and has taken steps to further reform its electricity sector in a way that makes it an attractive place to invest.” Societe Nationale d’Electricite du Senegal (Senelec), the national utility company of Senegal, will purchase the power generated from the facility under a 20-year power purchase agreement. American Capital Energy and Infrastructure – USA Website : www.acei.com Optic fibre sees increases Between January and April 2015, Chinese optical communication companies produced 103 million kilometres of optical cables, an increase of 15.25 per cent year-on-year according to data from a Chinese institution of industry research. The data shows that the optical cable output from Jiangsu Province ranks first, with a 46.8 per cent share of the national total output. Jiangsu Province’s optical cable production reached 48.2643 million core kilometres, an increase of 13.53 per cent year-on-year. Hubei Province produced the second largest optical cable output, with 17.6539 million core kilometres and a year-on-year increase of 22.27 per cent, accounting for approximately 17.13 per cent of the total amount. Optical cable output from Chongqing experienced the biggest increase compared with the previous year. In 2013, Chongqing SDGI Optical Fiber Cable Co Ltd invested in Fuling New District, to achieve its target of producing 2 million core kilometres of optical cables per year. It brought new capacity for optical cable production in Chongqing, and a total of 863,700 core kilometres of optical cables were produced in the first four months – an increase of 3,921.84 per cent year-on-year.

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