A contract for a new power plant has recently been signed by Mohamed al-Mashai, the president of the Libyan company, General Electric Company. The power plant has a production capacity of 1.044 megawatts and will be in Zliten, a city in western Libya.

The announcement was made by the company in a note published on its Facebook page; it specified that the signing ceremony of the project for the construction of the new plant imported from the German company Siemens and created by the consortium of the two companies (Urbacon Trading and Contracting Elsewedy Electric), was held at the prime minister’s office in the presence of the head of the Government of National Unity (GUN), Abdulhamid Dabaiba.

They also explained that the plant consists of six units with a total production capacity of 1.044 megawatts, and the expected completion date is within 26 months. 

General Electric Company clarified that the project is part of the plans of the company’s board of directors to improve the overall grid situation and boost production capacity in line with energy demand.

Qatar’s UCC Holding and Egypt’s Elsewedy Electric have been awarded $1.3 billion to build the 1GW Zliten power plant.

General Electricity Company of Libya is an Electrical and Electronic Manufacturing company located in Jamahiriya Area, General Electricity Company of Libya Building, Libya, 668, Al Swani Street, Tarabulus, Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.