Article: Tunisia: Tunis sets January deadline for Bizerte power plant bids.

Byline: prashant03

The country's second independent power project is due to come on line by 2014. Tunis is inviting five prequalified developers to submit bids by 29 January 2010 for its second independent power project (IPP), which will be built at Bizerte on the country's north coast.

The Bizerte IPP, which is due to come on line in 2014, will have a capacity of 350-500MW. The ministry says it may ask the winning developer to double the capacity of the plant in the future.

The prequalified firms are the UK's International Power; Japan's Marubeni Corporation; Mitsui & Company, also of Japan; Malaysia's Powertek Berhad with Germany's Siemens; ...

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