Arab Contractors is to finalise works on the new Suez power plant early 2016.
With cost worth 600 million Egyptian pounds (US78.7 million), the new plant is one of the major projects adopted by the government, as part of its five-year scheme.
Mohsen Salah, Arab Contractors Chairman, said the new power plant would add an additional 650 megawatts to the national grid to support Egypt’s rapid economic development and meet its growing population’s demand for power. The plant will start to operate by the beginning of 2016.
Salah added that his company is carries out all the civil works, the construction of the plant’s buildings, and the designs in accordance with up-to-date systems based on the protection of the plant’s facilities from dangers of fire. The company is also in charge of the drilling, infrastructure works for the plant, he said.
Moreover, Salah said Arab Contractors had accelerated works on the plant to deliver it within the determined timeframe.