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Location:  Itaqui, Maranhao State - Pecem, Cearà State (Brasil)
Client: MPX (EBX) / MPX (MPX-EDP)
Capacity: 360 MW / 2x360 MW

The two power plants will be designed in full compliance with stringent environmental standards, higher than those foreseen by current Brazilian regulations. Maire Tecnimont, through its subsidiary Maire Engineering do Brasil, owns 65% and leads the special purpose company Mabe Construçao e Administraçao de Projetos Ltda. (MABE), that will execute the project together with other Brazilian partners. The first project will realize a coal fired power station rated at 360 MW, to be built near the port of Itaqui, in the state of Maranhao. The value of the multicurrency contract is about €380 million at current exchange rates. The power station will be operative in 44 months. The second project foresees the realization of a coal fired power station with two lines rated at 360 MW each and a combined rated capacity of 720 MW, to be built near the port of Pecem, in the state of Cearà. The value of the multicurrency contract is about €700 million (or approximately 1,820 million of Reals) at current exchange rates. The power station will be operative within 47 months.
   
   
Location: Puerto Coronel, Chile
Client:  Colbun S.A./Endesa S.A.
Capacity: 370 MW for Colbun plant, 370 MW for Endesa plant
Two coal-fired power plants costing over US$1 billion will be realized in Chile, in the Puerto Coronel area (VIII region), approximately 500 km south of the capital Santiago. Following international bidding, a consortium of Tecnimont, Maire Engineering do Brazil, Tecnimont Chile, and the Slovakian company Slovenské Energetické Strojarne (SES), was awarded two contracts.
In both contracts, Maire Tecnimont will be in charge of the design, supply, assembly and commissioning of the whole plant, including the steam turbosets assembly supplied for both projects by General Electric of the US and the boilers supplied by the consortium partner SES. The projects are extremely important for Chile and will make a major contribution to solving the problems caused by a shortage of electricity. both plants are due to be completed within the first half of 2010.
   
   
Location: Olevano Lomellina, Italy
Client: BOlevano
Capacity: 18 MW
The power plant, with an installed capacity of about 18 MW, will be built by Tecnimont as general contractor. Construction will start in June 2009 and the project should be completed by mid-2011. The investment is about €75 million. Maire Tecnimont will form a special-purpose company to manage the plant in association with local biomass providers, who have guaranteed its entire lifetime raw materials supply.
The project is the first example of this magnitude of real integration between the agriculture and power sectors in Italy.
The power station will produce about 140,000 MWh per year, sufficient for a town of about 40,000 inhabitants. It will have virtually zero environmental impact and no CO2 emissions. A traditional coal-fired power plant of this size would emit more than 100,000 tonnes/year of CO2.
   
   
Location: Turbigo, Milan, Italy
Client: Edipower SpA
Capacity: 840 MW
Tecnimont, together with Techint and Siemens, is carrying out engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of a GTCC power plant, based on two Siemens gas turbines, for Edipower SpA in Turbigo. The project, includes the following: main and auxiliary transformers, steam turbines and electricity generators, condenser and condensing water system modification and rehabilitation, all the plant auxiliary systems, and dismantling of the existing power island based on four gas turbines in open-cycle configuration. The new installation is designed to meet the stringent environmental and emission-control standards laid down by the Parco del Ticino Authority.
   
   
Location: Itaqui, MA, Brasile
Client: MPX(EBX) / MPX(MPX-EDP)
Capacity: 360 MW / 2x360 MW
In 2007 Tecnimont beat other major international bidders, including General Electric, BHEL and Siemens, to win a contract for the construction of a GTCC power plant in Vlore, southern Albania.
Formal signing of the contract took place in Tirana in February 2007, in the presence of the Albanian Minister for Economy, Market and Energy, the General Director of KESH, the Italian Ambassador, government officials and Tecnimont executives.
The Vlore project represents the first major attempt to diversify power generation in Albania in order to reduce the country’s energy shortage. It is also the first big infrastructure project in the power sector in Albania for 20 years.