Press release
Turnkey construction of the Vridi 2 power plant
extension in Côte d’Ivoire
Paris, 27 August 2008
Cegelec, an international group providing technological services to companies and public authorities, has been awarded a turnkey contract to design, build and commission the 111 MW Vridi 2 power plant extension in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The nearly 55 million euros project for Bouygues subsidiary Compagnie Ivoirienne de Production d’Electricité (CIPREL) will increase the existing facility’s generation capacity by more than 50%.
The new unit is scheduled to come on stream in December 2009, lifting the Vridi 2 power plant’s generation capacity to 320 MW, or one-quarter of Côte d’Ivoire’s total installed power generation capacity. This will reduce the load shedding that affects most major cities in West Africa.
Cegelec’s procurement and other services encompass a General Electric gas-fired turbine, electromechanical auxiliary equipment, including instrumentation and control, energy evacuation equipment and connection to the grid, as well as civil engineering for the unit.
