GE wins '$2.2 bn Algeria turbine contract'

A woman who has never known gas or electricity warms herself 19 February 2001 by a fire in a makeshift home in Cherrata, 100 kms south of Algiers. General Electric Co. has won a $2.2 billion contract to provide turbines for six power plants in Algeria, state energy giant Sonatrach announced on Sunday. (AFP/File)

ALGIERS (AFP) – General Electric Co. has won a $2.2 billion contract to provide turbines for six power plants in Algeria, state energy giant Sonatrach announced on Sunday.

"GE has won the contract to provide the turbines with a total capacity of 8,400 megawatts for a sum of $2.2 billion dollars," Sonatrach chief Nourredine Bouterfa told state radio.

Algeria plans to build six new power plants with capacities of between 1,200 and 1,600 megawatts each by 2017.