Syria Chooses 16 Bidders to Build First Private Power Plant
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Syria selected Mitsui & Co. of Japan and 15 other companies and groups to bid this month for a contract to build and operate the country’s first privately owned power plant, an Electricity Ministry official said.
The Nasserieh plant, to be located northeast of the capital Damascus, will have a capacity of 180 megawatts to 250 megawatts, Khaled Homsi, head of the ministry’s public-private partnership unit, said in written comments yesterday.