The American group “General Electric Vernova”, listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GEV, announced on Wednesday, July 17 that it had received a new order from the Algerian national electricity and gas company “Sonelgaz” to strengthen the country’s power sector, providing high voltage equipment and automatic grid control equipment and solutions via 134 substations by 2028.
The American group indicated in a press release that the new order, which it describes as “important”, was registered in the second quarter of this year, without providing details on its history or its financial cost, stressing that the agreement will strengthen electricity network infrastructure in Algeria.
General Electric Vernova added that it will provide high voltage equipment and automatic network control equipment and solutions through 134 electrical substations in Algeria by 2028, explaining that this equipment will be assembled at the General Electric factory. GEAT” in the Ain Yaqout region in Algeria, Batna Governorate (eastern Algeria).
This contract follows an agreement signed between the two companies at the beginning of this year to diversify the basic activities of the turbine factory in the wilaya of Batna, expanded to the manufacturing of high voltage (HT) equipment and very high voltage substations. high voltage (Extra-HT).
Mourad Ajal, CEO of the Sonelgaz Group, declared: “This agreement results from the partnership between Sonelgaz and General Electric Vernova, through the new contracts recently signed, which enable the transition to the manufacturing of equipment for high and very high voltage. . -high voltage power plants, designated to implement a development plan for the electricity transmission network in Algeria. He added: “This order also constitutes an affirmation of Sonelgaz’s efforts to support the national integration program by manufacturing for the first time in Algeria and Africa high-quality equipment and advanced technologies, which will contribute to the transfer of expertise in this field to Algeria”.
The announcement of this agreement comes at a time when electricity consumption has reached an unprecedented historic peak in Algeria, reaching 19,756 megawatts. However, the government avoided cutting electricity to more than 11 million customers, thanks to a production surplus that also supported neighboring countries like Tunisia with daily exports above 500 MW.
