■ LSIS signs KRW 53.6 billion contract on Iraqi AMI project, world’s largest international bid
■ LSIS the most preferred bidder amid competition for low price offers, winning orders worth over USD 400 million for three years
■ Expands to end-user markets beyond the power transmission, transformation and distribution sector, entering the whole power sector (except power generation)
■ First case of entry into the smart grid market together with small firms, confident about winning follow-up orders
LSIS has won an order for a project to construct an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), a key smart grid technology, in Iraq. The contract is worth USD 52.24 million (KRW 53.6 billion), making it the world’s single largest international order for AMI.
LSIS announced its signing of the AMI project contract at the Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 13, with LSIS Smart Grid Business Unit Executive Kim Jong-han and Iraqi Ministry of Electricity(MOE) Directot General Waffi Muhammed Almayahi in attendance.
AMI enables the acquisition of information on power use and billing between power consumers and suppliers, real-time settlement of billing, and remote cutoff of power. Furthermore, AMI, which is designed to control home electronics and power devices according to fluctuations in power demand, is a key smart grid technology.
Under this agreement, LSIS will implement nineteen AMI centers across Iraq with the application of advanced technologies such as meter data management (MDM), electricity bill, and customer relations management (CRM).
In addition, LSIS is set to supply 110,000 smart meters to substations and end users in Bagdad and designated areas in order to share information necessary for power operation with local data collection center (DCC). The information will be comprehensively managed by a central control center (CCC) in an effort to provide smart grid-based sophisticated technologies for the management of power demand and the settlement of electricity bills.
LSIS competed in the bid against both local Iraqi and multinational companies, and emerged victorious after being evaluated as No. 1 in the technology category, including project performance capabilities, proposed technology advancement, and suitability, although its price offer was less highly evaluated.
LSIS has already successfully carried out a number of power transmission, transformation and distribution projects under larger projects to construct substations and DCCs. This time around the company has entered the AMI business sector, enabling it to expand its business to end-users, and to supply total solutions in the entire power infrastructure sector (except power generation).
Notably, as LSIS is set to supervise upper power operation systems across Iraq and the entire project, some small Korean firms have subcontracted the supply of devices such as Data Concentrator, thereby allowing the company to enter the overseas smart grid market together with small companies.
LSIS became the first non-European company to enter the Iraqi power infrastructure market in 2011, some 60 years after entering the power sector, and has since been carrying out a large number of substation projects. Last year, LSIS entered Iraq’s construction of power IT infrastructures after winning a DCC project to monitor power devices in power distribution-class substations across Iraq and to efficiently manage power networks.
From 2011 to 2013, LSIS won orders worth USD 444 million for Iraqi power infrastructure projects alone, bringing its cumulative orders (including this latest project) for three years to USD 500 million.
Kim Jong-han, the Head of LSIS’s Smart Grid Business Unit, said, “The Iraqi government is determined to adopt smart grids in its power infrastructure reconstruction projects from the long-term perspective. The country is planning to install four million smart meters, and we have pledged to execute this project successfully in order to win follow-up orders for smart grid projects.”
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