Efacec Automation strengths its position as a reliable supplier in Tanzania. Further to the contract successfully implemented for Tanesco (Tanzania Electric Supply Company) in Hale region, the New Pangani Falls Hydro Power Plant (2x34MW) automation and control system replacement concluded in 2012, Efacec was recently awarded with two new contracts for the supply, configuration and commissioning of automation systems that will be installed at TANESCO.

One of the contracts comprises the substation automation, control and protection systems to be installed at three substations (220/132/33 kV Njiro, 33/11 kV Sokoine and 132/33/11 kV Ilala). This contract is integrated in the program for the construction and rehabilitation of substations in Arusha and Dar Es Salaam regions. It is led by Saudi-based group NCC (National Contracting Company) that has selected Efacec Automation as a supplier for the substation automation, control and protection solutions.

The offered systems are based on the automation platform CLP 500SAS that combines unified Efacec (Series 420) and third party relays, controllers (Series 500), station servers (UC 500) and user HMI interface with IEC 61850 and IEC 61131-3 open systems integration, from communications and scheme programming to engineering and management. CLP 500SAS enables multiple field-proven system architectures, as for protection and control integration, multi-vendor integration, communication network architectures, use of hardwired or GOOSE logic and redundancy options, among others.

The second contract comprises the automation, control and protection system based on CLP 500SAS for a new 150 MW Gas Based Thermal Power Plant that will be installed in Kinyerezi. This system will supervise and control a 220 kV substation, and will communicate to SCADA system of Tanesco’s grid control centre at Ubungo. It will report all data from control systems of four gas turbines generating systems, a black start unit and a balance of plant systems. It’s the second project Efacec is supplying in Tanzania, achieved through the Norwegian business partner Jacobsen Elektro.

This new contracts reinforce Efacec’s Automation position in this market as a supplier of substation automation systems.