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Construction begun on Tanzania's first natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant

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Sumitomo Corporation (head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Kuniharu Nakamura), Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (head office: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture; President & CEO: Takato Nishizawa; hereinafter, “MHPS”) and Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation (head office: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture; President & CEO: Ryo Matsukawa; hereinafter, “TPSC”) have started construction on the Kinyerezi natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant, set to become the largest in the United Republic of Tanzania (hereinafter, “Tanzania”) with a generation capacity of 240 MW, in accordance with an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract concluded between Sumitomo Corporation and the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (hereinafter, “TANESCO”).


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