Contract for first power station in Tunisia to be endorsed tomorrow

Tunisia is to endorse tomorrow the contract for constructing the first power station financed by the private sector in Rades, an area of the Tunisian capital.

Tunisian press statement released today said that the project will begin its work two months after signing the contract. A group of companies is going to carry out the project, the most important of which is the American company for public works, the Public Service Enterprise Group.

The cost of the station totals $350 million and it will produce 240 megawatt of power. Work is to begin on the project in 2001.