The first private sector electricity station in Sudan

An agreement was signed in Khartoum on Tuesday for establishing the first electrical station for the private sector in Sudan at a production capacity of 257 megawatt and at a cost of USD 277 million.

The station which will be erected by the Malaysian " Daar Ikhtisas" company which will be put into actual investment in 2004, will also become the property of the Sudanese national electricity commission after 25 years.

The commission's chairman Awad al-Makkawi said the commission will buy electricity from the station in advance and will start first in al-Khartoum and then in other Sudanese provinces by the end of 2003.