{"id":25940,"date":"2019-10-24T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=25940"},"modified":"2019-10-24T12:18:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T12:18:53","slug":"the-gambian-national-grid-recieves18mw-for-new-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2019\/10\/24\/the-gambian-national-grid-recieves18mw-for-new-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gambian National Grid Recieves18mw for New Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gambia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gambia.jpg 750w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gambia-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gambia-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gambia-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>MNC company MAN Energy Solutions has achieved a contract to supply two of its 9L51\/60 engines for a newly built power plant in Brikama, the second-largest city in The Gambia.<\/p>\n<p>The plant, which is conducted by local energy provider National Water &#038; Electricity Company (NAWEC), will feed a total of 18MW of electrical output into the national grid, consequently stabilising the energy supply of the West African country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs in many African countries, a reliable energy supply is one of the most urgent challenges in The Gambia. Only just under half the population has a reliable entry to electricity. With the power plant in Brikama, we are now increasing the country\u2019s generation capacity by approximately 20%,\u201d according to Waldemar Wiesner, head of MEA region, power plant sales, at MAN Energy Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>With an area of only about 11,000 square kilometers, The Gambia is the smallest country on the African continent and its overall generation capacity of 100MW still falls short of the demand of the 2.1 million inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo safeguard the population\u2019s energy supply, NAWEC trusts the generation technology provided by MAN Energy Solutions for what is already the fourth time. After concluding the new plant in Brikama, MAN is providing a total of 42MW across the country, which is a third of the country\u2019s total capacity,\u201d added Wiesner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNC company MAN Energy Solutions has achieved a contract to supply two of its 9L51\/60 engines for a newly built power plant in Brikama, the second-largest city in The Gambia. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49501,"featured_media":25941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[482],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}