Algeria connects 386-megawatt power plant in Laghouat
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Algérie 360
Illustrative image · Maor Attias · Pexels · Licence PexelsA new 386-megawatt thermal power plant has been commissioned in Hassi R'Mel, in Laghouat province, southern Algeria. Energy Minister Mourad Adjal presided over the inauguration, with a 400-kilovolt North-South electricity interconnection under study, according to Algérie360.
Algerian Minister of Energy and Renewable Energies Mourad Adjal commissioned a 386-megawatt power plant on Tuesday in the commune of Hassi R'Mel, in Laghouat province, Algérie 360 reports. The facility is intended to increase the national electricity system's room for manoeuvre and absorb demand peaks, according to the ministry's services.
Hassi R'Mel, the country's gas hub where gas infrastructure and production facilities intersect, makes it possible to bring the new thermal capacity closer to consumption areas and limit losses over long distances. In the far south, a 136-megawatt plant is under construction in Tamanrasset to support the demographic and economic growth of areas long considered peripheral to the grid.
On the same day, Mourad Adjal is due to examine the construction of the 400-kilovolt North-South electricity interconnection line, which the authorities describe as the backbone of the future energy transmission system. This very high voltage limits losses, allows large transfers of power between regions and secures supply in the event of an incident at a power plant; it should also enable southern provinces to export electricity to the north.
This commissioning completes a series of connections carried out in recent weeks: three 700 MW solar plants were commissioned on 3 November, after the inauguration of a 300 MWp solar plant on 26 October.
