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Daily Monitor
Thursday March 11 2021
An aerial view of Isimba hydroelectricity dam. The contractor has not fixed at least 33 critical defects and hitches in the plant since its commissioning, two years ago. PHOTO/FILE
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China International Water and Electric Corporation (CWE), the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for the Isimba Hydropower Dam, has not fixed at least 30 critical defects and hitches on the plant, two years after it was commissioned, Daily Monitor has learnt.
The government awarded the Chinese firm the contract for the $567.7m (about Shs2 trillion) Isimba project, which started in April 2015.
The project was then commissioned in March 2019 and is expected to generate an annual 1,039GWh (gigawatt hours) of electricity a year, once it achieved a substantial completion mark on March 31, 2019. ....

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