July 29 (SeeNews) - Toplofikatsiya Sofia, the heating utility serving the Bulgarian capital city, said that a Bulgarian-Chinese consortium has won its tender for the construction of a 291.4 million levs ($176.9 million/148.9 million euro) combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Sofia.
The consortium comprises Bulgaria's Mix-Construction, China's Dongfang Electric and Everbright, and Turkey's Osal Energy, the heating utility, wholly-owned by Sofia Municipality, said in a statement last week.
The CHP plant will utilise refuse derived fuel (RDF) as part of Sofia's waste management strategy. The RDF is produced at the Sadinata site, which was equipped with a Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) plant through an earlier EU-financed project.
Toplofikatsiya Sofia intends to use EU financing under operational programme Environment 2014-2020, as well as a loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance the construction of the CHP plant.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)