■ LSIS wins 115kV substation construction deal worth KRW 11 billion at Port-au-Prince
■ After the great earthquake of 2010, Haiti pursues reconstruction projects in earnest: LSIS is confident about winning more deals
■ Head of Haiti’s Electricity Agency (EDH) visits LSIS to review improving and expanding its power grids and introducing technology
Amid a situation in which Central and South America, including Venezuela and Dominica, are expanding their investment in power infrastructures, LSIS (Vice Chairman & CEO: Ja-kyun Koo) has won an order from Haiti for a substation construction project, heralding its first steps in the regional market.
On October 6, Jean Errol Morose, head of EDH (electricite de Haiti) and two EDH officials visited LSIS, observed its super-high-voltage electric devices and smart grid solutions. And then they sounded out the possibility of introducing such solutions to their power infrastructure construction project.
Last month, shortly prior to this development, at EDH in Port-au-Prince, LSIS signed a deal with EDH to construct an 115kV Tabarre substation, with LSIS T&D (Transmission & Distribution) business division head Lee Jeong-cheol, EDH Head Jean Errol Morose, and other officials present at the signing ceremony.
Under this agreement worth KRW 11 billion, LSIS will form a consortium with Haiti’s private power generator ESD to perform the whole construction process, ranging from site design and the procurement of materials and equipment to construction and supervision, according to the so-called turnkey method. LSIS will construct the substation in Port-au-Prince over a period of 13 months starting in November 2015.
On October 6, at the LS Tower HQ in Anyang, LSIS held a technical seminar with a delegation led by Jean Errol Morose, the head of EDH, presented the plan for the substation project, and also proposed to supply its power devices and smart solutions, including the super-high voltage GIS (Gas Insulated Switchgear) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems.
After the seminar, the EDH delegation observed the exhibition center on the first floor of the LS Tower, and sounded out the possibility of adopting LSIS’s world-class GIS, transformers, and high- and low-voltage power devices in Haiti. They also showed great interest in LSIS’s smart grid business - such as the SCADA and HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) systems - and highly evaluated its competitiveness.
As a result of the great earthquake in 2010, Haiti saw most of its industrial infrastructures destroyed. Now, however, Haiti’s power markets are increasing the demand for infrastructure construction projects, with the IDB (Inter-American Development Bank), World Bank, and other overseas development financing institutes positively expanding their investments in reconstruction infrastructure projects in Haiti, thus raising the prospect of rapid growth of the power industry.
Notably, this project, which is being financed by the IDB, is the first substation construction project of Haiti’s power infrastructure reconstruction initiative. As such, LSIS is set to use this project as a springboard for penetrating the adjacent Central and South American markets including Venezuela and Dominica.
An LSIS official said, "This project, as the first EPC project we have won from Central and South America, is expected to serve as the beachhead for entering the regional power markets. Haiti has shown such keen interest that the EDH Head personally visited LSIS to check out our technological capacities. As such, we expect to win further orders, and to supply LSIS’s smart grids to Haiti.”
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