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BUENOS AIRES, Aug 21 (Reuters) – China’s Gezhouba Group Corp
and Argentina’s Electroingenieria have been awarded
contracts to build two hydroelectric dams in the Patagonia
region for $4.1 billion, the Argentine government said in its
official gazette on Wednesday.
The dams, to be named “President Nestor Kirchner” and
“Governor Jorge Cepernic”, will be built on the Santa Cruz River
in the province of Santa Cruz. They will have a combined
generating capacity of 1,740 megawatts, or nearly 6 percent of
Argentina’s current capacity, the gazette said.
