South Africa: New substation for Johannesburg

City Power has contracted Consolidated Power Projects (Conco) to construct a new 400/275/88kV substation at Sebenza. Consolidated Infrastructure Group subsidiary Conco said growth in the Sebenza area had increased exponentially without a corresponding upgrade of the ageing power infrastructure, leading to the power grid in the region becoming constrained. The project began at the end of 2014 and completion is expected at the end of 2017. On completion, an extra 1000MVA is expected to be added to capacity in the Sebenza area, which will dramatically improve the reliability and stability of the grid.