President George Manneh Weah on August 16, 2022, officially commissioned the Congo Town Substation, a modern state-of-the-art GIS Substation located in the Transformer Community at the back of the Kailando Hotel, Old Road.
MBH Power Limited has successfully designed, engineered, procured and commissioned transmission, substation and distribution projects in Monrovia and its surroundings, all under the Monrovia Consolidation of Electricity Transmission Project, named “Light Up Monrovia.”
The Project is being funded by the European Union Development Funds (EDF) and supervised by the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC).
This substation is the first of its kind in post-war Liberia, which has SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) System and is fully automated.
This Project has a capacity of 50MVA that is supplying electricity to more than 41,000 customers (homes and business centers) in Monrovia and its environs.
The MBH Power Ltd. implemented this project within the required duration of two years and 40 young Liberians, recent graduates in Engineering, were trained and received practical knowledge.
Some of the dignitaries present during the occasion were Samuel D. Tweah, Jr., Minister of Finance & Development Planning; Gesler E. Murray (Minister of Mines and Energy); Monie R. Captan, Head of Management of the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC); Ambassador Laurent Delahousse, Head of the European Union Delegation to Liberia and Cllr. Musa Dean, Minister of Justice.
