Government begins reviewing tender offers for the 2022-2027 plan Hamrawein coal power plant

The government is reviewing tender offers for the 6 GW USD 8 bn Hamrawein “clean coal” power station, Al Borsa reports. The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company has hired Belgium’s Tractebel Engineering Consultancy to review seven offers from international companies that include Shanghai Electric, a consortium made up of Elsewedy Electric and Marubeni, a APEC - Orascom consortium, and Mitsubishi - Hitachi. The plant had been postponed, among a few other projects to the 2022-2027 electrical power development plan.