The Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) has announced that its engineering procurement construction (EPC) project, the 270-megawatt Maamba thermal power plant, has successfully pumped power into Zambia’s national grid.
The coal-powered plant, built by PowerChina Nuclear Engineering Company, a subsidiary of Power Construction Corporation of China, marks the company’s first EPC project in Africa.
Located in Sinazongwe, in the southern part of the country, Maamba was invested in and constructed by Singapore-based NBS, a subsidiary of India’s NBV, of which two 150-megawatt circulating fluidized bed coal-fired units for phase one were adopted.
As part of the EPC contract, PowerChina is responsible for the overall work of the project, including design, purchasing, construction, installation, debugging and operation.
The Maamba thermal power plant is in its trial operation after the two 150-megawatt generators were installed, ready to generate power.
The first one has produced 64,346 megawatts for Zambia’s national grid since it commenced operation in July. The second has also been connected into the grid and pumped power.
Zambia depends heavily on hydro power generation, and has invested in diversifying its ways of power generation to tackle with power shortages due to low rainfall.
(Source: The Power Construction Corporation of China)
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