AEW Expo - Algeria Electricity and Water Expo 2010

Scheduled for November 8-10, 2010 at Algiers, Algeria, 6th AEW Expo is the year’s largest exhibition devoted to Algeria’s electricity sector.

To sustain and to meet its growing electricity demand, which is increasing by 2-4 percent annually, Algeria needs to add 1,500 MW in fresh generating capacity and related infrastructures like transmission lines and substations each year.

The electricity reforms initiated in 2002 began a new era for Algeria’s power sector, resulting in scores of foreign and private companies bidding for independent power projects at several locations in Algeria.

There are six power projects with a cumulative capacity of over 6,000 MW planned in Algeria in the private sector. Infrastructure overheads like transmission lines and substations to evacuate fresh capacities are also under consideration. The Algerian government, to accelerate the reforms, recently awarded a $19 million contract to an Egyptian electrical contracting company to set up 550 km of high voltage electricity lines.