Kinoya Power Plant Expansion
Our team was awarded a contract by the Fiji Electricity Authority (FEA) to build a new 36 megawatt (MW) power plant adjacent to the existing Kinoya Power Station in Suva, Republic of Fiji. The contract scope included the design, construction, installation and commissioning of a power house consisting of four heavy fuel oil power generating sets with associated auxiliaries. The engines, manufactured by Wartsila, are W20V32 type diesel engines. At the completion of the project in 2015, Pernix was awarded a 13 year operations and maintenance (O&M) contract for the completed 36 MW Kinoya Expansion Plant.
Vanuatu Concession
Since the takeover of the Vanuatu Concession in 2011, our team has rebuilt two-thirds of the hydro generation and has replaced or rebuilt four-fifths of the diesel assets while simultaneously extending the network into many previously un-served communities and lowering the power cost to its customers. This O&M project involves electricity supply, transmission, generation, billing and collections for the town of Luganville on Espiritu Santo, which is the largest island in Vanuatu by land area. As a whole, the utility operation has a client base of several thousand customers, most of which are residential customers. There are approximately 350 business, government and high-voltage customers.
Vanuatu Photovoltaic Pilot
Our team was responsible for the program management and owner’s engineer for this 40 kWdc Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Project. The project was installed using 240 watt modules, SMA Sunny Tripower inverters and SMA Sunny Webox for remote monitoring and control from the central power plant. VUI’s responsibilities were to ensure the project was installed per specifications and to the requirements of the existing grid, to incorporate the asset into its operations of its generation assets and to maintain the asset for its service life.
