{"id":4624,"date":"2026-02-08T09:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:18:06","slug":"k109mil-power-projects-to-be-launched-today-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/2026\/02\/08\/k109mil-power-projects-to-be-launched-today-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"K109mil power projects to be launched today, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TWO projects worth around K109 million aimed at reducing power disruptions are expected to be launched at Taraka and Yalu today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was announced yesterday by State Enterprises Minister William Duma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/19xp-nuclear-gzvf-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/19xp-nuclear-gzvf-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/19xp-nuclear-gzvf-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/19xp-nuclear-gzvf-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/19xp-nuclear-gzvf-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/19xp-nuclear-gzvf-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/19xp-nuclear-gzvf-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600-780x439.jpg 780w, https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/19xp-nuclear-gzvf-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duma said both projects were to be funded by Kumul Consolidated Holdings (KCH), and that the Taraka Gensets cost around K29 million, while the Yalu Solar project cost K80 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBoth are funded by KCH but are owned by PNG Power Ltd,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLae residents can expect reduced power blackouts until the Ramu (Yonki) system comes back on with full energy output with the upgraded transmission lines from Singsing Creek down to Lae.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO projects worth around K109 million aimed at reducing power disruptions are expected to be launched at Taraka and Yalu today. This was announced yesterday by State Enterprises Minister William Duma. Duma said both projects were to be funded by Kumul Consolidated Holdings (KCH), and that the Taraka Gensets cost around K29 million, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-u-k-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grants.zimadtech.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}