PNG Power lights up Arawa town

By STEPHANIE ELIZAH
BUSINESSES and residents in Central Bougainville will enjoy a reliable and consistent power supply when PNG Power commissions its generators at Arawa this week.
They have been depending on their own generators to supply power since normalcy returned to the conflict-ravaged township which once had its electri­city supplied by the Bougainville Copper Ltd and managed by the PNG Electricity Commission (Elcom), now PNG Power.
The Arawa PNG Power pro­ject is an Autonomous Bougainville Government project.
It contracted PNG Power as the primary operator and ma­nager of electricity to Ara­wa and surrounding areas of
Central Bougainville.
The project included the installation of three diesel gene­rators, re-construction of infrastructure for the project and re-establishment of the PNG power operating system.
Autonomous Bougainville administration project personnel Ephraim Eminoni said easy pay meters had been installed in a number of homes with more houses and businesses yet to be completed.
Commissioning of the project took place on Tuesday in Arawa with power supplied to the users in the main sections of Arawa town that already have easy pay meters installed, Eminoni said.
A formal launching of the project had been planned for next month.