Impregilo to build South Africa's 1,368-MW Ingula

摘要

South African utility Eskom named Impregilo and CMC of Italy to build the 1,368-MW In-gula pumped-storage project on the border of South Africa's Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.rnImpregilo announced March 31 that it has a 40 percent interest in the construction consortium to build the 600 million euro (US$792.6 million) pumped-storage project in the Little Drakensberg Mountains near Ladysmith. Completion is scheduled for 2013.rnImpregilo and its partners are responsible for underground civil works, including installation of pump-turbines, underground waterways, leveling shafts, penstocks, powerhouse and transformer caverns, access tunnels, and upper and lower reservoirs.