ABB clinches $30m contract to upgrade DRC electricity link

Automation technology company ABB has been contracted by the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) national electricity company Société nationale d'électricité (SNEL) to partially upgrade its Inga-Kolwezi high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission link. The $30-million contract forms part of the country’s reliability improvement, rehabilitation and reinforcement of the SNEL production and transport infrastructures, or FRIPT, project – financed by Glencore and managed by Congo Energy, a subsidiary of Forrest Group International.