May 20 2009
China wins Botswana power plant contract
Botswana has awarded a $970 million contract to build a new coal-fired power plant to a Chinese company.
The contract for the 1,200 MW plant was awarded to China National Electric Equipment Corporation (CNEEC). Known as the Morupule B Power Plant, the pithead power plant will be funded jointly by the owner of a number of coal mines in Botswana (I don’t know who that is yet) and the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), the national power company of Botswana.
In the first stage four 150-MW circulating, coal-fired units with direct air-cooling will be built. In turn, CNEEC awarded the engineering contract to Central Southern China Electric Power Design Institute (CSEPDI), a subsidiary of China Power Engineering Consulting Corporation (Beijing).
Earlier CNEEC had signed the general contract with BPC at the headquarters of BPC. The total value of the contract is $970 million. The project is the first power project and also the largest general contract project developed by Chinese enterprises in Botswana to date.
CSEPDI is a leading power engineering institute in China. So far this year CSEPDI has signed over 20 contractsfor foreign projects.
Source: IndustrialInfo.com