Istanbul: Turkey and China have finalised a contract worth $2.4bn to build a coal-based thermal power plant in northwestern Turkey.
The deal was signed between Turkish Hattat Holding and China’s Harbin Electric International in Istanbul on Friday. The power plant is projected to generate 2,640 megawatts of electricity.
Harbin Electric International Project Manager Xu Hongfu expressed his satisfaction with the deal.
“We produce technical equipment that has the capacity to generate 40,000 MW of power annually, and we have power plant projects in more than 20 countries. We are happy about our cooperation with Hattat Holding, and we expect more cooperation with them in the future,” he said.
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz also said, “We are continue our works to get other coal mines online to generate power by speeding up the related tenders.”
On May 3, Turkey and Japan signed a long-awaited deal worth $22bn to build Turkey’s second nuclear power plant on the coast of the Black Sea.
The nuclear plant is to be built in the city of Sinop, located about 430km northwest of Ankara.
The Sinop plant will have four reactors and is projected to generate 4,800 megawatts of electricity. Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd will be joined on the project by power company ITOCHU Corporation and French electric utility company GDF SUEZ to operate the plant together.
The French energy company Areva will be supplying the plant’s reactors in connection with Mitsubishi.
In 2010, Turkey struck a deal with Russia to build the country’s first nuclear plant in the city of Akkuyu, situated 425km south of Ankara.
Turkey, which relies heavily on gas and oil imports from Russia and Iran, wants to build a total of three nuclear power plants to reduce its dependence on foreign energy. QNA
