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A consortium of South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction and Posco International have signed a contract to build the 1,300MW Umashe combined-cycle power plant in Biskra province in Algeria.

The $730m contract was signed with the Hyenco joint venture of Hyundai and Sonelgaz and work is expected to take 60 months.

The power plant will have an average power generation capacity of 968m MWh/yr.

 

 Source: www.energynewsafrica.com