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2 January 2008 - EDF and PricewaterhouseCoopers have won the tender for an investment study of the Kambarata-1 and Kambarata-2 hydropower plants in Kyrgyzstan, said Inter RAO UES - the organizer of the tender.
Their bid stood at 73.8m rubles ($3m). Other bidders were Mott MacDonald (the UK) and SNC-Lavalin International Inc. (Canada).
The winner will sign the contract in early 2008.
The construction of the Kambarata cascade began in 1986. About 40 per cent of construction and assembly works have been done at Kambarata-2, in the middle reaches of the Naryn River. The power plant will have the capacity of 360 MW and the annual output capacity of 1.14bn kWh.
The Kambarata-1 power plant will be the largest facility of the cascade. It has the rated capacity of 1900 MW and will annually produce 5.1bn kWh of electricity.
Inter RAO UES is a subsidiary of the Unified Energy System of Russia that exports and imports electric power, owns the holding's electricity facilities abroad, primarily in the CIS, and manages a number of power plants in Russia.
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